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Example sentences for: syllable

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Among the exceptions are Jesus', Moses', and names of more than one syllable whose unaccented endings are pronounced eez, as in Euripides' or Xerxes'.
Here, one may observe the opposite happening: when people wish to spruce up an old word, they add a syllable.
He maintains Mayan is a rare form of Slurvian created by adding an extra syllable.
Sometimes, even these verbs may be stressed on the first syllable by way of contrasting two actions or conditions, as in, it has de creased, not in creased.
But because the syllable man also means `ten thousand' in Japanese, they have coined a further word, okushon , based on their word for `one hundred million' oku , because that implies greater luxury still.