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...Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880's or the Dick and Jane primers of the 1950s (still around today as decodable readers i...

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...Sound me ---------- Sound me. Am I not round in your mouth? Do I split your lips? Make you spit? Do I make you bite your tongue? Push the syllables out wrongly? Do I make you gnash? Tangle you in a toothed trap? Sound me. I am round in your mouth. I make yours’ open with a pout. Make you lovingly form me And long to breathe me out. ...

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...rom the windowpane, to exit and meet him in the dusk. My grandmother didn't utter a single syllable as she fastened the blinders in his face. Janusz... ...nd everyone hummed in consent. "Poor Dinah" – sighed another aunt, summing in these three syllables her entire shrivelling misery. It was stuffy a... ...e doesn't even notice Mayer who occupies a seat beside him. His lips give shape to writhing syllables. Mayer regards his efforts with nauseated fasc... ...my first words? Silence. I said zilch, nada, nothing. Having deconstructed her introductory syllables, I began to survey her, limb by limb. It goes ...

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... It is all in the file. He was being blackmailed by the Jews.” He wouldn’t add a syllable to this cryptic and seemingly counterfactual announceme... ...“Roth, we need to talk. Tomorrow, 9 AM, my office.” That’s Bauer all right. Not a syllable wasted, all pleasantries summarily dispensed with. ...

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..., Mr Soames,” she said, in a way that made James think she was banging out each syllable with a hammer and chisel. “Philip should be in a private r...

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... yes. Very well, thank you." And so proper, she thought, enunciating every syllable, rarely using contractions. He was going to keep her on her P's an...

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...er get ready for the baby, okay?” “Okay,” Laura replied, dragging ouch each syllable. Julia saw the expression on her face change and braced hersel...

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...ned to the boy and asked him his name. The boy smiled and said an easy two-syllable name, Nawin. It seemed like an easy name for a foreigner to rememb...

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...es abated. His hands gesturing wildly, Ronan showered him with a babble of syllables Daniel could not decipher. To slow him down, he Listen With ... ...gers. Daniel nodded his praise, and, pointing to himself, repeated Ronan’s syllable. Ronan was delighted as Daniel’s P’s puffed against his finger... ...arning to speak was just a pipe dream of a doting father. Those strings of syllables they practiced seemed a loving game between them, but she never... ... cue. Daniel could not see the tutor sitting behind him as she mouthed the syllables Ronan had practiced so long. But though the ‘s’ sounds were go...

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... Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, emphasizing the accent of each German vowel and syllable exaggeratedly. She internally debated the merit of giving her c... ...what he will say to her at all times but I can guarantee that the vowels and syllables he uses will be benign. They will be creative and not hateful....

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... go days, unable to write a word. They are cold days. Shall I use eleven syllables? A poem does not grow like a leaf, but has to be shaped. I often...

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... Royce wasn’t one to shorten things, if you know what I mean.” “Royce liked a five-syllable word when a two-syllable would do. What else did he say...

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...wanted me! Every single part of Donatello Ravell screamed out in big raging syllables my name. The fire of his want spread through me, igniting al...

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...rter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind a...

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... for her beauty and her wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal ... ...rted by my mar- riage and the voyage to India. We have not yet exchanged a syllable: she was snapped up, of course, the moment she en- tered the room.... ..., Leander. I don’t think I hear myself calling to a dog in a name of three syllables. T wo at the most.’ No, so I call Hero! if I want him to come imm... .... But you speak of Miss. Paynham.’ Diana lowered her voice on half a dozen syllables, till the half-tones dropped into her steady look. ‘You approve, ... ...on in the warm sweet open air, and they walked without an interchange of a syllable through the park into the white hawthorn lane, glad to breathe. He... ... public taste of the period for our ‘vigorous homely Saxon’ in one and two syllable words, had complained of a ‘tendency to polysyllabic phraseology.’... ...ed like life itself. Not to a soul except Diana would Dacier have breathed syllable of any secret—and one of this weight! He ran down the article agai... ...th interesting subterranean facts; and there was a communication, in brief syllables and the dot language, crudely masculine. Immensely surprised, Sir...