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Example sentences for: one-syllable
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Do I get it when “I shall not want,” four simple one-syllable words, swaying in iambic rhythm, with the shall sliding irresistibly into the breathy w of want calling up the memory of God's “breathing the breath of life” [Genesis 2:7] and man becoming a “living soul” is “improved” to “I shall lack nothing” with its jagged k sound, its materialistic, vacuous nothing , or changed to “I have everything I need” to which “Well, whad-daya know!”
I have noticed that nearly every one-syllable first name is a homonym for an actual word.
To miss the crucial element of emotive charge that even a simple, one-syllable word may convey, to lose or pass over the nuance of meaning is to lose Shakespeare's feeling as well.