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syllableUnit 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’. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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1663 acatalectic accent acephalous acronym affix alexandrine alliteration Basho blank verse blend Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond Burman Calhoun catalectic chaordic organization Cherokee Chinese language Chinese literature | Webster's favoring of dost over doest is not paralleled in SP (each form occurs only once in the collection of letters), but this datum may reflect merely a spelling difference rather than a true distinction between a monosyllable and a disyllable and so may safely be ignored as possessing any authorial significance. The feet in which a CVC[LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] disyllable can appear, will always be one syllable longer than those in which a CVC monosyllable may figure, or won't they? Thus, for example, Finnic -al is realized as a disyllable -olo- in old loanwords and treated separately in newer words: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 'strait, sound' < [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] < cf. |
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DISV Disvaluation Disvaluation disvalue disvalue disvalued disvalued disvalues disvalues disvaluing disvaluing Disvantageous Disvelop Disventure DISVI Disvouch DISW Diswarn DISWeb DISWG Diswitted Diswont Disworkmanship Disworship Disworth DISY disyllabic disyllabic disyllabic disyllabism disyllable disyllablesDisyoke DISZ dit dit dit dit dit dit dita dita dita dita bark DITAC dital harp Ditantalum pentoxide DITAR DITARD DITAS DITAS DITAS Ditation DITAW DITB DITC DITC-H DITCA ditch ditch ditch | |||||||
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