Oh, and if one of your eight syllable industry specific words slips out, just define it immediately and move on.

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"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.

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She runs out of breath, and then settles, mysteriously, like an old Bible that italicizes ordinary words, on a single syllable.

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Words, in her mouth, always seemed to have one syllable too many.

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