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syllable

Unit of pronunciation within a word, or as a monosyllabic word, made by a vowel or a combination of vowels and consonants. For example, the word ‘competition’ contains four syllables: ‘com/pe/ti/tion’.



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Through the careful study and application of these 'richest Iewels', the reader might attaine to the quality of such worth that thou mayst learne from it to cure thy dumbenes, to discourse confidently with thy friends, and assuredly to tender thy wit and service to those thou shalt have occasion to acknowledge, especially in the Court, where neatenesse and curiosities of all sorts, and principally of speech is to a sillable exactly studied.
The cause is, for that the most parte of Englishe wordes are shorte, and stande on one sillable a piece.
 
 
 
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