syllabification
Example Sentences
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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)
Therefore I must reject it as nonsense syllabification.
From Bad Medicine by Sheckley, Robert
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
As such they are the carriers of practically all significant differences in stress, pitch, and syllabification.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
Vocabulary lists containing syllabification
Words with 15 or More Letters, List 5
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Lesson 6
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