syllable

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Syllable by syllable, each actor may well be speaking authentic Philadelphian, but strung together all the accents become inconsistent, hard to understand and silly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2014

Syllable by syllable, it transported me back to the city where I spent my 20s and developed a perverse love for the broad “a” and the tough-sounding transmutation of “the” into “duh.”

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013

Therefore None of them ever touch'd upon this Point, or spoke one Syllable of the only Thing, which in their Hearts they hate me for.

From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob

Some Words admit of an Elision of their first Syllable; as 'Tween, 'Twixt, 'Mong, 'Mongst, 'Gainst, 'Bove, 'Cause, 'Fore, for Between, Betwixt, Among, Amongst, Against, Above, Because, Before.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward

The harshness of the last of them proceeds from its being accented on the 3d Syllable, which may be mended thus, by transposing only one Word; And Lovers both, both thy Disciples were.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward