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Even monosyllabic words are not immune, as when a doctor's familiar words “say Aah,” while examining a patient's throat, came out in print as “say Haa.”
"The Idea of Order" culminates in another highly monosyllabic line: "And when she sang, the sea,/ Whatever self it had, became the self/ that was her song, for she was the maker."
Because centered dots are used to mark syllable breaks--a useful practice abandoned in an access of sheer stupidity by the editors of the Collins , this does not present problems except in monosyllabic words, like lilt, till , and ill.
But Schickel does seem to see him as some sort of Delphic oracle, and his attempts to translate the man's monosyllabic pronouncements make for hilarity: " 'Women,' Clint says, a sort of sad befuddlement in his tone, 'always want to know what you're thinking.
The contemporary surfie [1962] at least partially replaces surfer in its turn though it invokes the image of the “monosyllabic cretin” who speaks two words of English-- yeah and man --streaks his hair with Clairol, and, worst of all, drinks milk.
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