The word "syllable" is considered to be correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when speaking about the pronunciation of a word. For example: "The word 'banana' has three syllables."
Since then, Bresciano has gained 73 caps and lost one syllable.
My pick: State Bird Provisions Meriting every syllable of praise that's heaped on it, Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski's punky little restaurant is a genuine game-changer: I've never encountered its like.
Buckingham Palace declined at the time to comment publicly on the Queen's remarks, but in private, officials were keen for reporters to broadcast every syllable uttered by the monarch.
The surname is pronounced just as it looks - but Wolstenholme refused to say his name because it had the syllable "cock" in it, choosing instead to refer to him as "Trebilco".
Half a syllable into the word "literature", Lessing rolled her eyes, put her shopping down, and sighed.
The paper has always called Obama "Bam", which I don't much like, mainly for linguistic reasons (it grabs bits of two different syllables of "O-ba-ma" and forms a syllable that isn't part of the president's name. If you mentioned "Bam" to most people in casual conversation they'd have no idea whom you meant).
Tamil, for example, has more than 200 characters, each of which represents a syllable.
Syllable-timed speech is a characteristic of languages that have come into contact with other languages.
Speakers of MLE speak with a syllable-timed rhythm, in which all syllables are accorded roughly the same time and stress, as in French or Japanese.
Sanskrit and Chinese are unrelated, and about as different as it is possible to be; Sanskrit is highly inflected (with long words and complex endings with explicit meaning) while classical Chinese is highly isolating (overwhelmingly one-syllable words, with much left to context and shared knowledge).
But there was no sympathy for five-syllable words in MGM, and the sexiest thing about "White Cargo" was its title.She often thought of returning to her native Austria, but never did.
