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  • s  pronounced in syllables

  • Hoy's Moscow-syllabled appraisal of last week's march past: a demonstration of "workers' opposition to Anglo-American reactionary maneuvers and imperialistic penetration.
  • The spectacle of grown men fiddling with new, multi-syllabled names for the Navy alphabet flags, at a time when we are told we are in dire peril, overwhelms me.
  • Hoy's Moscow-syllabled appraisal of last week's march past: a demonstration of "workers' opposition to Anglo-American reactionary maneuvers and imperialistic penetration.
Quotes

  • Pauline Kael in New York Times
    Some said that Greer Garson was a talented actress of ladylike grace and charm, but Pauline Kael called her "one of the most richly syllabled queenly horrors of Hollywood."
  • Edith Sitwell in Wall Street Journal
    Regarding a section of the poem "The Drum" ("Is it black night? / Black as Hecate howls a star / Wolfishly, and whined / The wind from very far"), Sitwell explained: The "small-vowelled quick three-syllabled word 'Hecate' makes the line rock...

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