For example, Cantonese contrasts 6-7 tones and has a lot of one-syllable words.
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Some years back it ran a piece in praise of short words, entirely in words of one syllable.
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Whatever the role, he stretches out a word of one syllable into two, or even three, and declaims each syllable at a different pitch.
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To capture the raw anguish being shared for the first time, Greenwell uses many words of one syllable, like stabbing, staccato sounds: "I don't know if I was like this before," the character confides.
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Instead, the veteran Soviet diplomat stormed out of the meeting after Truman told him off "in words of one syllable," as the president later recalled, for breaking deals that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin had cut with his wartime Western allies.
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While the couple settled on Chicago eventually ("Obviously because [Kanye]'s from Chicago," Kardashian West shares of the inspiration, adding, "That is a place that made him"), she explains that they did consider a couple of one-syllable names just like they chose for son Saint, 2, and daughter North, 4½.
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Call it pandering or love, but Queen built at least one song, "We Will Rock You," around the idea of audience participation, and the movie is, most memorably, a celebration of what's shared, whether the band is warbling about Beelzebub and the inscrutable "Galileo figaro magnifico," or thousands of ticket holders are chanting an anthem's chorus of one-syllable words.
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Conjuncts often span a syllable boundary, and many of the conjuncts below occur only in the middle of words, where the coda consonants of one syllable are conjoined with the onset consonants of the following syllable.
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Ojibwe syllables are organized into metrical feet. A Foot consists of a minimum of one syllable and a maximum of two syllables. Syllables are either Weak or Strong. Each foot contains no more one than one Strong syllable.
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Educators, in particular Horace Mann, began to advocate for changes in reading instructional methods. He observed that children were bored and "death-like" at school, and insisted that instruction needed to engage children's interest in the reading material by teaching them to read whole words. The McGuffey Readers (1836) were the most popular of these graded readers. Rebecca Smith Pollard developed a sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics, complete with a separate teacher's manual and spelling and reading books. From the 1890s to at the latest 1910, A. L. Burt and other publishing companies published a series of books aimed at young readers that used simple language to retell longer classics. J. C. Gorham produced three works: Gulliver's Travels in words of one syllable (1896), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable (1905), and Black Beauty retold in words of one syllable (1905).
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Under the pseudonym Mary Godolphin, Aikin also contributed as an editor to versions of Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Aesop's Fables, Evenings at Home (by her father and aunt), and Sandford and Merton written "in Words of One Syllable".
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable is a retelling by J. C. Gorham of Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, written in 1905 and published by A. L. Burt of New York. It is part of Burt's Series of One Syllable Books, which was "selected specially for young people's reading, and told in simple language for youngest readers". The series included such works as Aesop's Fables, Anderson's Fairy Tales, Bible Heroes, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Life of Christ, Lives of the Presidents, Pilgrim's Progress, Reynard the Fox, Robinson Crusoe, Sanford and Merton, and Swiss Family Robinson. Gorham re-told Gulliver's Travels in 1896, and Black Beauty in 1905.
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This is a list of candidates for the 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 words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. ; cited in Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed.
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This is a list of Korean given names by type. Most Korean given names consist of two Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja. There are also names with more than two syllables, often from native Korean vocabulary. Finally, there are a small number of one-syllable names.
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These pairs are not interchangeable. Usually, ji is written as じ and zu is written as ず. There are some exceptions. If the first two syllables of a word consist of one syllable without a dakuten and the same syllable with a dakuten, the same hiragana is used to write the sounds.
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Many abridgements which appeared after Day's death reflect this interest; they condense the book, remove sections on educational philosophy and highlight the relationship between the two boys.Introductory essay on Sandford and Merton . Retrieved on 8 June 2007. One, for example, was by Lucy Aikin in 1868 as Sandford and Merton: In Words of One Syllable.
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Shakespeare uses these words to make "an aesthetic investment in profusion". The sonnet ends with a couplet: two consecutive rhyming lines. Each line contains ten syllables, and the second line is composed only of one-syllable words. Some scholars attribute the monosyllable closing line of the poem as a tribute to 16th century poet, George Gascoigne.
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One-syllable article is a form of Mandarin Chinese tongue twister, written in Classical Chinese. Due to Mandarin Chinese having only four tonal ranges (compared to nine in Cantonese, for example), these works sound like a work of one syllable in different tonal range when spoken in Mandarin, but are far more comprehensible when spoken in another dialect.
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Line 11 also features an initial reversal. Largely because of a number of one-syllable function words in the poem, several lines (1, 4, 5, and 9) have potential initial reversals, depending upon the emphasis chosen. Similarly, lines 1 and 9 potentially contain mid-line reversals, while that in line 13 is surer. Line 3 potentially contains a minor ionic.
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The breeding season is late March while the hatching season is mid- May through mid-July. Once paired, males will guard females 24 hours a day. When it comes to the general breeding and habitat locations for the partridge, it prefers more local areas far from direct disturbances from human contact. Males have three types of one-syllable call, which are a crowing call, courtship call, and preserving territory call.
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His career at Eton came to an end after only two years, following an attack of scarlet fever, with his head master writing witheringly of him "Spelling ludicrous; even in words of one syllable the order of letters is often reversed". Fortunately, this was an age when difficulty in reading and writing was no obstacle to gaining entry to Cambridge, and Boringdon graduated Bachelor of Arts in due course.
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It featured new illustrated front and back covers in full colour by E. Gertrude Thomson, who was a good friend of Dodgson.Morton N. Cohen and Edward Wakeling (2003), Lewis Carroll and his illustrators, Macmillan, London, pp. 229–231 The book was 'engraved and printed' by the famous colour printer Edmund Evans. The work is not merely a shortened and simplified version, along the lines of J. C. Gorham's 1905 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable.
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This classifier construction consists of a V-shaped hand, which represents the legs, moving down. As it became more like a sign, it could also be used with non-animate referents, like apples or boxes. As a sign, the former classifier construction now conforms to the usual constraints of a word, such as consisting of one syllable. The resulting sign must not be a simple sum of its combined parts, but can have a different meaning entirely.
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These dysfluencies are considered a normal phase of language development. Children who do not require speech therapy will often outgrow the period of dysfluency. Experts find that there is a distinction between childhood dysfluency that will likely correct itself and other disorders such as stuttering. The most common form of dysfluency in children younger than three years of age is the repetition of one syllable words or parts of words, especially at the beginning of their sentences as they try to form the sentence correctly.
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Classical Chinese lexicon is the lexicon of Classical Chinese, a language register marked by a vocabulary that greatly differs from the lexicon of modern vernacular Chinese. In terms of conciseness and compactness, Classical Chinese rarely uses words composed of two Chinese characters; nearly all words are of one syllable only. This stands directly in contrast with modern Chinese dialects, in which two-syllable words are extremely common. This phenomenon exists, in part, because polysyllabic words evolved in Chinese to disambiguate homophones that result from sound changes.
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1905 edition cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable In colonial times, reading instruction was simple and straightforward: teach children the code then let them read. At that time, reading material was not written specifically for children but consisted primarily of the Bible and some patriotic essays; the most influential early textbook was The New England Primer published in the late 1680s. There was little consideration for how to best teach children to read and assess reading comprehension. Reading education changed significantly in the middle of the 19th century.
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"Liber OZ" (or "Book 77") is a single page by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley purporting to declare mankind's basic and intrinsic rights according to Crowley's philosophy of Thelema. Written in 1941 (though based on a much earlier O.T.O. initiation lecture), the work consists of five succinct and concise paragraphs, being one of the last and shortest of Crowley's many "libri," or books.The Equinox: The Review of Scientific Illuminism, Samuel Weiser, 1990, page 144 Crowley wrote the piece for Louis Wilkinson in order to convey as simply as possible the "O.T.O. plan in words of one syllable" broken down into "five sections: moral, bodily, mental, sexual, and the safeguard tyrannicide...".
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The aspirated consonant letters (kh-, chh-, th-, ph-) are pronounced with aspiration only before a vowel. There is also slight aspiration with k, ch, t and p sounds before certain consonants, but this is regardless of whether they are spelt with a letter that indicates aspiration. A Khmer word cannot end with more than one consonant sound, so subscript consonants at the end of words (which appear for etymological reasons) are not pronounced, although they may come to be pronounced when the same word begins a compound. In some words, a single medial consonant symbol represents both the final consonant of one syllable and the initial consonant of the next.
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English has two grammatical constructions for expressing comparison: a morphological one formed using the suffixes -er (the "comparative") and -est (the "superlative"), with some irregular forms, and a syntactic one using the adverbs "more", "most", "less" and "least". As a general rule, words of one syllable require the suffix (except for the four words fun, real, right, wrong), while words of three or more syllables require "more" or "most". This leaves words of two syllables—these are idiomatic, some requiring the morphological construction, some requiring the syntactic and some able to use either (e.g., polite can use politer or more polite), with different frequencies according to context.
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William Wordsworth, author of "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" consists of three quatrains, and describes Lucy who lives in solitude near the source of the River Dove.Wordsworth knew three rivers of that name; in Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Westmorland, but each could equally be the setting for the verse. In order to convey the dignity and unaffected flowerlike naturalness of his subject, Wordsworth uses simple language, mainly words of one syllable. In the opening quatrain, he describes the isolated and untouched area where Lucy lived, while her innocence is explored in the second, during which her beauty is compared to that of a hidden flower.
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Classical Chinese is distinguished from written vernacular Chinese in its style, which appears extremely concise and compact to modern Chinese speakers, and to some extent in the use of different lexical items (vocabulary). An essay in Classical Chinese, for example, might use half as many Chinese characters as in vernacular Chinese to relate the same content. In terms of conciseness and compactness, Classical Chinese rarely uses words composed of two Chinese characters; nearly all words are of one syllable only. This stands directly in contrast with modern Northern Chinese varieties including Mandarin, in which two-syllable, three- syllable, and four-syllable words are extremely common, whilst although two- syllable words are also quite common within modern Southern Chinese varieties, they are still more archaic in that they use more one-syllable words than Northern Chinese varieties.
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