syllabication
IPA: sʌɫˈæbɪkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of syllabifying; syllabification.
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Examples of "syllabication" in Sentences
- In the United States the prevailing purpose of syllabication is to indicate pronunciation.
- Mr. Fairbain did well and actually seemed to be enjoying himself until syllabication did him in.
- Rules for the division of words at the ends of lines, with remarks on spelling, syllabication and pronunciation.
- Write 10 words frequently mispronounced andindicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
- Then indicate what words are to be defined, and insist upon the proper syllabication, accent, marking of letters, etc.
- I decided to give the writer a pass on his over-syllabication because I hadn't done nearly enough research on this bill.
- Rules for the division of words at the ends of lines, with remarks on spelling, syllabication and pronunciation. 42 pp.; 70 review questions.
- _All new words of special difficulty, at the heads of the lessons_, having their syllabication, accent, and pronunciation indicated according to Webster.
- Gigantic white birds fly from beyond the white curtain, screaming the eternal "Teke-li-li, tekeli-li" -- a syllabication that dies away on the lips of the islander as his soul finally, on that last terrible day, leaves his body.
- It is good that these words came just here to wall themselves before the torrent that might not have been stayed until I had laid the mountain of my thought upon the sycophantic syllabication that the world loves to "lip" unto the world, -- the false world, that, blinded, blinds to blinder blindness those that fain would behold.
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