- With
numerous sound mergers occurring in
different varieties over time,
polysyllabic words increasingly served to
reduce ambiguity between words that had...
- The
Polysyllabic Spree is a 2004
collection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've Been Reading"
columns in The Believer. The book
collates his
columns from September...
- survived, such as 'imbibe' and 'extrapolate'. Many of the most
common polysyllabic English words are of
Latin origin through the
medium of Old French. Romance...
- In
rapping and poetry,
multisyllabic rhymes (also
known as
compound rhymes,
polysyllable rhymes, and
sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis) are rhymes...
-
context as tonos, i.e.
simply "accent"),
marking the
stressed syllable of
polysyllabic words, and
occasionally the
diaeresis to
distinguish diphthongal from...
- (and trisyllabic) for a word of
three syllables; and
polysyllable (and
polysyllabic),
which may
refer either to a word of more than
three syllables or to...
-
Examples of a
rhotic and a non-rhotic
speaker Rhotic (American)
speaker /ˈfɑrmər/ for
farmer Non-rhotic (British)
speaker /ˈfɑːmə/ for
farmer Problems...
- are
monosyllabic as in Chinese,
whereas native Korean morphemes can be
polysyllabic. The Sino-Korean
words were
deliberately imported alongside corresponding...
- ****e (𬼀, from 為) are not kana ligatures, but
polysyllabic kana.
Hardly any kana
ligatures or
polysyllabic kana are
represented in
standard character encodings...
- po [po] ピャ pya [pʲa] ピュ pyu [pʲɯ] ピョ pyo [pʲo]
Final nasal monograph Polysyllabic monographs n iu koto ****e toki tomo nari * ン n [m n ɲ ŋ ɴ ɰ̃] iu [jɯː]...
