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  2. List of the longest English words with one syllable - Wikipedia

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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. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...

  3. Monosyllable - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a monosyllable is a word or utterance of only one syllable. [1] It is most commonly studied in the fields of phonology and morphology. [2] The word has originated from the Greek language.

  4. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster's Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as ...

  5. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Paeon: a metrical foot of 1 long syllable and 3 short syllables in any order. Primus paeon: long-short-short-short; Secundus paeon: short-long-short-short; Tertius paeon: short-short-long-short; Quartus paeon: short-short-short-long; Epitrite: a metrical foot consisting of 3 long syllables and 1 short syllable. First epitrite: short-long-long-long

  6. Dactylic hexameter - Wikipedia

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    The coincidence of word accent and meter in the last two feet could be achieved by restricting the last word to one of two or three syllables. [20] Most lines (about 85% in Virgil) have a caesura or word division after the first syllable of the 3rd foot, as above ca/nō. This is known as a strong or masculine caesura.

  7. Syllable weight - Wikipedia

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    The second syllable is light because it contains a short vowel (an A) followed immediately by only one consonant (the V). The next syllable is light for the same reason. The next syllable, the second syllable of the word virumque, is heavy ("long by position") because it contains a short vowel followed by more than one consonant (the M and then ...

  8. Talk : List of the longest English words with one syllable

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    I'd love to hear an mp3 or something of someone managing to say squirrelled with only one syllable, I'm not sure how it can be said that squirrelled is the longest english word with one syllable when the correct pronunciation of the word has 2 syllables. Suppafly 23:20, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

  9. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same , or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on the second.

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