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#syllable

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Syllables govern the world.


George Bernard Shaw


#syllables #world

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.


Kate Smith


#every #grasp #important #meaning #meaning of

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.


Misty May-Treanor


#back #ever #every #had #hit

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel.


Jerry Spinelli


#grammar #maniac #syllable #vowels #grammar

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.


Annie Dillard


#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.


Vernon Duke


#meant #paris #really #required #rhythm

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#chance #construct #different #drawn #each

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.


Michael Shanks


#network #protective #shows #syllable #writers

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#audible #carried #could #immediately #impress

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#day #english #first #half #heart






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