...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. ...

...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 ...

... 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. ...

..., 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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....

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... also to know how to put the true natural name of each thing into sounds and syllables, and to make and give all names with a view to the ideal name, ... ...member that Cratylus – Plato 14 different legislators will not use the same syllables. For neither does every smith, although he may be making the sa... ...gislator, provided he gives the true and proper form of the name in whatever syllables; this or that country makes no matter. HERMOGENES: Quite true. ... ...y nature has, and is able to express the true forms of things in letters and syllables. HERMOGENES: I cannot answer you, Socrates; but I find Cratylus... ...the same principle the son of a king is to be called a king. And whether the syllables of the name are the same or not the same, makes no difference, ... ...urse of nature, is like the parent, and therefore has the same name. Yet the syllables may be disguised until they appear differ ent to the ignorant ... ...mortals); and there are many others which might be cited, differing in their syllables and letters, but having the same meaning. Would you not say so?... ... from a sentence into a noun, we omit one of the iotas and sound the middle syllable grave instead of acute; as, on the other hand, letters are some ... ... one letter, which is the alpha, has been omitted, and the acute on the last syllable has been changed to a grave. Cratylus – Plato 28 HERMOGENES: Wh...

...e metre of the poem proper is iambic, that is, with the accent on the even syllables, and octosyllabic, or eight syllables to the line. 29. Monan’s ri... ...wood. Note the musical variation in the measure here; the 1st, 3d, and 4th syllables being accented instead of the 2d and 4th. It is occasionally intr... ...e of this song is trochaic; that is, the accents fall regularly on the odd syllables. 631. In slumber dewing. That is, bedewing. For the meta- phor, c... ... of the song is dactylic; the accents being on the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th syllables. It is little used in English. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Bri... ... solitary and melancholy mountaineer.” 161. Mankind. Accented on the first syllable; as it is almost invariably in Shakespeare, except in Timon of Ath... ...be amphibrachic; that is, made up of feet, or metrical divisions, of three syllables, the second of which is accented. Some of the lines appear to be ... ...e lines appear to be anapestic (made up of trisyllabic feet, with the last syllable accented); but the rhythm of these is amphibrachic; that is, the r... ... rhythm of these is amphibrachic; that is, the rhythmic pause is after the syllable that follows the accent. “(He) is gone on | the mountain, (Li... ...eems best to treat the rest as amphibrachic, with a superfluous unaccented syllable at the beginning of the line. Taylor adds: “The song is very caref...