Melisma is the musical art of creating a run of many notes from one syllable.
Words, in her mouth, always seemed to have one syllable too many.
"The thing that struck me when I put together this list was that 90% of the top 100 words were one syllable, and that a large proportion were actually from Old English, meaning the basic words we use all the time in basic sentences are from before the Norman Conquest, " he said.
Ms. DENCH: (As M): Utter one more syllable and I'll have you killed.
Aside from one-syllable takes on the name Joseph, Guardiola and Heynckes don't have much in common, at least on the surface.
Most are short, one-syllable nicknames that are quite common.
Finally, note that there are just 14 words in the revised sentence, compared with 19 in the original, and that nine of them are one-syllable, three are two-syllable and two are three-syllable.
They range from one-syllable shots like the Ace, the Deuce, the Dot and the Dart to names with mythological, military and poetic associations: the Argus, the Homer, the Colonel, the Scout, Eureka and Black Beauty.
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Oh, and if one of your eight syllable industry specific words slips out, just define it immediately and move on.
She starts her sentences up high, then swoops inexorably downward to the period, banging with a sledgehammer on the second syllable of every word that has one ("a-verrr-sion, " "Cammm-bohh-dee-ahh").
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As Peter Parker, lead Reeve Carney looks enough like a normal kid and managed one solid glory note, but for some reason he swallows every syllable of dialogue he utters before spitting it out.
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