Example sentences for: syllabication

How can you use “syllabication” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One feature of the earlier books in the series has unfortunately not been kept in TBDNE --the use of centered dots within headwords to show syllabication points.

  • 1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

  • The syllabication of Modigliani is shown as \?\ rather than/, \?\ and the execrable) often-heard \?\ is not shown.

  • The syllabication of headwords is not an important feature in British dictionaries: the Collins English Dictionary , which offered an elaborate system in its first edition (1979), set the words solid in its second edition (1986), but I am informed that the major portion of the correspondence received at Collins Publishing concerning the dictionary concerns this change and is critical of it.


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