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- From: windsor@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Katherine Windsor)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Vowels in words (and syllables)
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 20:41:37 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Nov2.185454.21655@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Nov2.205440.23865@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1d9oriINNam5@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Keywords: Rythm
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- In article <1d9oriINNam5@gap.caltech.edu> dian@arpeggio.gg.caltech.edu (Dian De Sha) writes:
- >In <1992Nov2.205440.23865@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- Lots of stuff deleted
- >
- >In fact, on second thought, I suppose the requirement really is
- >that every syllable must have a vowel. Hmmm... Off hand, I
- >cannot think of a vowel-less syllable. Can anyone else? (without
- >simply grepping an online dictionary!)
- >
- >____
- >Dian
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- I think immediately of "rythm," which must be articulated
- as two syllables. The "thm" sound must be pronounced as a
- separate syllable. Any takers?
- -katherine
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