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Example sentences for: syllable

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The same impoverishment of formal devices is found in examples of religious glossolalia, with an exaggerated tendency towards repetition, syllable reduplication, vocalic parallelism, open syllabification, excessive symmetry in contrasts, an impoverished inventory of sounds--whatever the mother tongue of the glossolalist.
Robinson notes initially with regard to this verb that the primary syllable should be compared to the Sanskrit carnis `horn,' from car `to bore.
These difficulties produce such monstrosities as sutoraike for English `strike'—one syllable in English, five in Japanese.
Nor Milton's airy tongues that syllable men's names.
Spelling and conventional hyphenation can be linked; while I noted not so much as a single typographical error in this book, I saw once again confirmation of the encroaching ignorance of those who write automatic hyphenation programs for computers, presumably employed in the production of the work: the oft-repeated word English, properly hyphenated Eng-lish, has been made to conform to the other words having -ng- at a syllable break by appearing as Eng-lish throughout.