syllabication
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syllabicationsVocabulary lists containing syllabication
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From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Fairbain did well and actually seemed to be enjoying himself until syllabication did him in.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
Hence there is a harshness, if not an impropriety, in that syllabication which some have recently adopted, wherein they accommodate to the ear the division of such words as maj-es-ty, proj-ect, traj-ect,—eq-ui-ty, liq-ui-date, ex-cheq-uer.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
In the United States the prevailing purpose of syllabication is to indicate pronunciation.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.
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