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 Goold Brown
In the diacritical marking, as in accentuation and syllabication, Webster's International Dictionary has been taken as authority.
From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers
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