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In linguistics, a monosyllable is a word or utterance of only one syllable. [1] It is most commonly studied in the fields of phonology and morphology. [2] The word has originated from the Greek language.
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...
Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster's Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as ...
“So one-three-two or one-two-three syllables are better than two-two-two.” Popular One-Syllable Girl Names: Maeve - Irish name meaning "she who intoxicates"
Basically, any sonorant can serve as a syllabic nucleus (and indeed if a word contains sonorants it must contain at least one syllable), and the maximal syllable is, IIRC, CVC. When a word has no sonorants, none of it is parsed into syllables. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.7.19.42 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
End rhyme (aka tail rhyme): a rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line in a poem with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. End-stopping line; Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.
A good example for the SSP in English is the one-syllable word trust: The first consonant in the syllable onset is t, which is a stop, the lowest on the sonority scale; next is r, a liquid which is more sonorous, then we have the vowel u / ĘŚ / – the sonority peak; next, in the syllable coda, is s, a sibilant, and last is another stop, t.
The poem is somewhat more comprehensible when read in other varieties such as Cantonese, in which it has 22 different syllables, or Hokkien, in which it has 15 different syllables. The poem is an example of a one-syllable article, a form of constrained writing possible in tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese, where tonal contours expand the ...