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About News Contact. How Many Syllables uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy. Syllables Synonyms Rhymes huge. Syllable Rules 1. Learned one syllable is the past tense of to learn. Ready for the Test? Here is a confirmatory test for this lesson. This test can also be: Edited i. Printed to create a handout. Sent electronically to friends or students.
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Improve this question. Huey 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Dr Coconut Dr Coconut 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. For standard speakers of English, there are 2 syllables. It depends on who you ask. Robusto Sorta kinda. One can do better than that, and I have attempted to do so. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Part of this is due to exaggeration of phonetic features that the speaker feels important to make apparent in the careful articulation of an isolated instance of a word.
Another part of this is that a word that is part of a larger utterance now has other rules shaping it, including rules of phrasal prosody and phonologic phenomena due to the words around it.
Per the Wikipedia article on the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area , languages from that area are especially notable for their syllabic and tonal characteristics: Syllable structure: A characteristic of MSEA languages is a particular syllable structure involving monosyllabic morphemes, lexical tone, a fairly large inventory of consonants, including phonemic aspiration, limited clusters at the beginning of a syllable, and plentiful vowel contrasts.
You can force a two-syllable rhyming interpretation using the following bit of doggerel in trochaic tetrameter : If you place your trust in science, Might this be too much reliance On the written words of giants?
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Replacing the giants with signs , you will still have strictly metered verse, but forcibly the pronunciation changes. I agree that if a clear example could be found in existing literature making science rhyme with either a two- or one-syllabic pronunciation, it would serve nicely, but constructing an example yourself no matter how well-wrought it is , lends this answer no more credibility than a simple "It has two syllables.
I'm with tchrist on this one. Does trochaic tetrameter have an anceps? But apart from the shorter duration of the vowel and the slight pre-nasal glottal closure in pints , they would rhyme to some speakers.
The fact that the question gets asked is proof that in some dialects science and signs do rhyme. If we assume they never do, the question is absurd.
If we "don't believe" they do, you could have simply answered Dr Coconut "You must have misheard, I do not believe anyone pronounces science with one syllable". In either case, your poetic escapade is hardly argumentative.
It just shows your personal opinion that either the question is absurd, or that Dr Coconut must have misheard, it does not provide an argument to substantiate that opinion. That said, I do like the verse. I will not tell you, because I do not agree with that statement. If I could explain the logic behind upvotes on this, or any, SE site I would probably be somewhere else making a huge amount of money from my analysis skills.
Show 11 more comments. Manish Manish 2, 4 4 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. In the end, if you want to sound standard American or British, use two syllables. Mitch Mitch Did you forget an en dash?
How should that be understood? I meant non-native speakers of English, which, as a second language, may still be a viable variety, it's just that in south-east Asia I think there's only Singaporean English with that status Anyway, I don't know the SEAsian varieties well enough to know if 'everybody' monophthongizes or otherwise says it the same as 'signs'.
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