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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.
For example, the a in the stressed syllable of tomato is pronounced /ɑː/ in RP, and /eɪ/ in GenAm, a combination that is very unusual and is not covered by any of the 27 lexical sets above. [11] Some words pronounced with /ɒ/ before a velar consonant in RP, such as mock and fog , belong to no particular lexical set because the GenAm ...
Dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter and the meter of epic) is a form of meter or rhythmic scheme frequently used in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The scheme of the hexameter is usually as follows (writing – for a long syllable, u for a short, and u u for a position that may be a long or two shorts):
dactyl – one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (e.g. an-no-tate, sim-i-lar) anapaest—two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (e.g. com-pre-hend) spondee—two stressed syllables together (e.g. heart-beat, four-teen) pyrrhic—two unstressed syllables together (rare, usually used to end dactylic hexameter)
A one-letter word is a word composed of a single letter. The application of this apparently simple definition is complex, due to the difficulty of defining the notions of word and letter. One-letter words have an uncertain status in language theory, dictionaries and social usage.
The letter א aleph is a zero consonant in Ashkenazi Hebrew. It originally represented a glottal stop, a value it retains in other Hebrew dialects and in formal Israeli Hebrew. In Arabic, the non-hamzated letter ا alif is often a placeholder for an initial vowel. In Javanese script, the letter ꦲ ha is used for a vowel (silent 'h').
The disinformation technique, dubbed the Gish Gallop in 1994 by the National Center for Science Education’s founding director, Eugenie Scott, is essentially the art of burying one’s opponent ...
(Speakers without the merger generally have [ɪ] in the final syllables of rabbit, Lenin, roses and the first syllable of edition that is distinct from the schwa [ə] heard in the corresponding syllables of abbot, Lennon, Rosa's and addition.) If an accent with the merger is also non-rhotic, then for example chatted and chattered will be ...