Words similar to syllable

Example sentences for: syllable

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He maintains Mayan is a rare form of Slurvian created by adding an extra syllable.
As mentioned, the pronunciations are British: the variant pronunciation of controversy , in which the stress is on the (shortened) second syllable, is shown, but that is not heard in the US; neither is the given pronunciation of intermediary , which ends \?\ in BE but /\?
In couplets and the "beheaded" (first syllable omitted) four-foot iambic line, familiar from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," he speaks his mind directly and eloquently about feeling love ardently when no longer a youth.
But a government spokesman responded with a quotation from a second edition of the same reference book: " 'An' was formerly usual before an unaccented syllable beginning with 'h' and is still often seen and heard (an historian, an hereditary title).
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.