Taurus “Monumental” best describes you now, albeit with emphasis on the last two syllables.
Yet he continued to wrestle with a demon that the Perry Street regular felt sure could be summarized in four syllables.
Its origins and etymology are veiled in mystery: cha is Chinese for “tea,” but debates rage over those first two syllables.
DI taught even 4-year-olds to understand sounds, syllables, and rhyming.
Or is the line just a collection of nonsensical sounds and syllables?
Whereas in an English Line, there is hardly ever more than two syllables in a foot.
But a child who was just in two syllables might have written the other.
What word of one syllable, if you take two letters from it, remains a word of two syllables?
The way he bit off the syllables showed how tired and disappointed he was.
The words came distinctly enunciated, cold and hard, a little pause separating the two syllables so that each cut like a stab.
late 14c., from Anglo-French sillable, Old French sillabe, from Latin syllaba, from Greek syllabe "a syllable, several sounds or letters taken together," literally "a taking together," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + stem of lambanein "to take" (see analemma). The extra -l- was added by analogy with participle and principle.