- In linguistics, a
monosyllable is a word or
utterance of only one syllable. It is most
commonly studied in the
fields of
phonology and morphology. The...
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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...
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described his
death thus: "Steve's
final words,
hours earlier, were
monosyllables,
repeated three times.
Before embarking, he'd
looked at his
sister Patty...
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singulars of the same verbs, tem, vem.
Other monosyllables ending in -em are not accented.
Monosyllables ending in -o(s) with the
vowel pronounced /u/...
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famous self-introduction from any
character in
movie history.
Three cool
monosyllables,
surname first, a
little curtly, as
befits a
former naval commander...
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Functional graphemes sokuonfu chōonpu
odoriji (
monosyllable)
odoriji (polysyllable) っ (indicates a
geminate consonant) ー (indicates a long vowel) ゝ (reduplicates...
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nasal vowel lost its
nasalization in the
Romance languages except in
monosyllables,
where it
became /n/ e.g.
Spanish quien < quem "whom",
French rien "anything"...
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terms linked to **** or ****ation are
incidentally four-character
monosyllables. Notably, the term "four-letter word" does not
strictly refer to words...
- books—where if
people suffered, they
suffered in
beautiful language, not in
monosyllables, as we did in Kansas."
After the
death of his grandmother,
Hughes went...
- word that
consists of a
single syllable (like
English dog) is
called a
monosyllable (and is said to be monosyllabic).
Similar terms include disyllable (and...
