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syllabication

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[si-lab-i-kay-shuhn] / sɪˌlæb ɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

  • syllabications
    plural
  1. a variant of syllabification.


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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

That new words, however compounded, carried these meanings to the Indian ear, and were understood by it in all possible forms of accretion and syllabication.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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