I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of polysyllabic pontification. |
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Some children, however, have problems with polysyllabic words, and so they need explicit teaching, coupled with broad-based reading experiences. |
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What we really need is a small, elegant phone that makes typing real, polysyllabic words fast and easy. |
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Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for polysyllabic words to commence with a stressed syllable. |
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A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism. |
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With 26 letters to choose from, why do we keep fixing upon the only letter in the English alphabet with a polysyllabic name? |
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No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings. |
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They cling to polysyllabic professors who find clever ways to say the same dumb things over and over again. |
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Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development. |
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Here, alas, an ink-stained wretch fell behind in his polysyllabic note-taking. |
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Farwell also exhibits a Gibson-esque fascination with polysyllabic techno-gobbledygook. |
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented. |
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists. |
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All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader. |
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Whereas in New England, with Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenues and plenty of Connecticut Avenues in other places, the polysyllabic names cry out for shortening. |
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Welles was at the time in the grip of the semioticians: everything was polyvalent, polysemous, above all polysyllabic. |
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I was on a great polysyllabic spree, a grand tour round the glories of the subordinate clause. |
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Firstly, it is forbidden to employ monosyllabic words when a polysyllabic alternative is available. |
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However, most words in Chinese are polysyllabic, consisting of two, three or even four syllables. |
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For the read speech style, percentages are quite close between regions, when considering polysyllabic or at least trisyllabic words. |
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Most, in fact, find themselves asking the class how to pronounce polysyllabic words, how to operate a projector or where they can find whiteboard markers. |
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And then there's the flavour, which puts store-bought broths laced with polysyllabic additives to shame. |
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Subtract the total number of sentences from 30 and multiply the remainder by the average number of polysyllabic words per sentence. |
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And there's that love of Latin, obscure and polysyllabic words. |
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I for one would love to see those polysyllabic place names, like Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch, rendered in Cyrillic. |
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What is new in Shakespeare is his use of a massively polysyllabic monologue using two new Latinate words multitudinous and incarnadine that he may well have invented. |
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Table 6: Number of polysyllabic words preceding a pause, percentage of occurrences in which the penultimate vowel is longer than the final one and mean duration of penultimate vowels. |
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Most of the words are monosyllables, though some are polysyllabic. |
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Interestingly, accent 1 generally occurs in words that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, and accent 2 in words that were polysyllabic. |
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Count the total number of polysyllabic words. |
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Many of the most common polysyllabic English words are of Latin origin through the medium of Old French. |
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I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions. |
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Mark all polysyllabic words in the 30-sentence sample. |
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His head was stuffed with books and beautiful polysyllabic words which, later, he would enunciate very slowly, as if chewing some favourite candy. |
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The lilting merchant patter, the scent of joss-sticks, the profusion of cashmeres, silks and cottons, and the polysyllabic splendour of shop names all evoke the shores of Gujarat rather than Arabia. |
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The word polysyllabic is autological, but the word monosyllabic is not. |
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Most other verbs follow a fully predictable paradigm, although polysyllabic verbs ending in laterals can deviate from this paradigm as they show syncopation. |
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