syllabification

Example Sentences

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What he said was unintelligible, but words were uttered; the syllabification was distinct.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Madmen are of some nation, and their language, however incoherent in its words, has always the coherence of syllabification.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

Therefore I must reject it as nonsense syllabification.

From Bad Medicine by Sheckley, Robert

For further details on syllabification in our oldest Latin manuscripts, see Th.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)

This was uttered with such blinding rapidity of syllabification as to be a better test of teetotalism than the Scotch one of saying "Biblical criticism" six times.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)