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...ighlights Coward and [[Gertrude Lawrence]] as speakers of "fine UPR, every syllable is sounded but some letters (the main vowels) are clipped".<ref name="MB"/>

'''pāstime''' ''hobby'' one '''s''', one '''t''', one word, stress on first syllable, cf. '''pàss tîme''', even stress ...E verb'': in view of the pronunciation ('''í''', not î, and with the first syllable stressed: *práctíss, never "práctîze") AmE using only the -'''íce''' s

...stress can fall on the last, on the second-to-last or on the third-to-last syllable. Each grapheme has a quite easily predictable pronunciation.

...like "Faf-erd" but with a throaty [[aspirate]] associated with the second syllable:

...ted’ to the rest of the word, can be stressed equally with the other tonic syllable, as '''rê'''-, in verbs: '''rêcáp, rêdesîgn, rêdo, rêwrîte, rêplâ

...of ''t'' or ''d'' where these occur between vowels and in an unstressed [[syllable]] of North American English, e.g. ''city'' or ''butter''. This sound is kno

! Number of verses & syllable metres | 3 verses, 7+9 syllable metre

...n and its eastern dialects) /'a/ if there is a back vowel in the following syllable, and /e/ if there is a front vowel. For example, 'white' (sing. - plur.) so ...t) is pronounced {{IPA|/mɛnadʒ'mɛnt/}} with the stress falling on the last syllable.

...heŵ''' the '''s''' is pronounced separately fronm the '''ch''': the second syllable is identical to the word '''cheŵ'''.)

...rifîce, devîce, advîce''' but -'''íce''' usually in words of more than one syllable: '''pôultíce, crévíce, nótíce, láttíce, Véníce, hóspíce, órif�

...''' separates the '''i''' from the preceding '''ê''', making the '''í''' a syllable: *vê-í-kle – or as a schwa: *vêəkle, *víəkle. And in names like ''

...], [[Slovak language|Slovak]] or [[Czech language|Czech]], or even on each syllable, as in [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] or [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]].

|'''pláteaux''' (*plátôz; in both, the second syllable is stressed in AmE)

...'' and a long ''a'' indifferently. There follows a listing of words of one syllable (68 total), two syllables (8 in number), three syllables (10), four syllabl

'''uu''' is very rare and can be pronounced as one syllable -yû-, as usually in '''vácûum''', or as two syllables -yû(w)ù-, as in

*Few or no [[syllable]]s closed by final consonants (e.g. English ''tin'');

...ller number of names: '''MácIlvoy, McEnroe'''. In the latter the stressed syllable is an invisible '''á''': *Máckənrô.

...(or a vowel-drenched '''r''' in [[American English|AmE]]), there is no new syllable: '''cān't, shān't, àren't, wëren't, dãren't'''.

...'eindklankverscherping''), meaning that voiced consonants cannot appear in syllable-final position. Thus, the word ''paard'' 'horse' is pronounced [pa:rt], wit

...ndomly generated series of syllables spoken in a variety of accents, a two-syllable pair that can be liberally interpreted as 'Satan' is very easy to generate.