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Hathaway, B. A.

"1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading"


18. _What is a Syllable?_
A letter or letters uttered by a single impulse of the voice.
19. _What is the essential part of a syllable?_
A vowel.
20. _Can there be a syllable without it containing a vowel sound?_
There cannot.
21. _What is Syllabication?_
That branch of etymology which treats of the division of words
into syllables.
22. _How many methods of Syllabication are there?_
Two.
23. _What are they?_
English and American.
24. _What is the object of the English method?_
To separate words into their elementary parts without regard to
pronunciation; as, a-tom.
25. _What is the object of the American method?_
To indicate the proper pronunciation by separating affixes from
the roots.
26. _What is a word of one syllable called?_
A monosyllable.
27. _What is a word of two syllables called?_
A dissyllable.
28. _What is a word of three syllables called?_
A trisyllable.
29. _What is a word of more than three syllables called?_
A polysyllable.
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