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... procedure. The point of concentration can be a mantra (a special selected syllable, word or name), a picture or small statue, or simply staring off i... ...on a level with the navel. In this lotus, shining like the sun, stands the syllable ram. Above ram is the syllable ma. From ma, Dorjee Naljorma (a fem... ...lable ma. From ma, Dorjee Naljorma (a feminine deity) issues. These mystic syllables, which are called “seed,” must not be regarded as mere written ch...

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...ters -- 8 —10 -- Of the Vowel Sounds -- 11 -- Of the Consonant Sounds -- 13 -- Of the Sounds of Foreign Consonants -- 14 Of Diphthongs -- 15—18 -- Of Syllables -- 19—23 -- Of Words -- 24—26 -- Formation of Words -- 27—36 -- Peculiarities in the Use of Words -- 37—40 -- Of Accents—General Law -- 41—45 -- Letters Dropped -- 46 -- Letters Inserted -- 48 -- Etymology Definitio...

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...pe, willincrease the usefulness of the book. These include a means of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of words with more than three syllables; indication of Hawaiian parts of speech; scientific names of plants changed since the early 1950s; additional ancestral reconstructions; classical origins of Hawaiian borrowings; corrections of previous entries that...

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...ge of the aboriginal population—a single language that is phonetically simple and easily identifiable by the paucity of sounds and the lack of closed syllables and consonant clusters. On the Mainland, place names have been taken from a great many languages—some of them European—but a large proportion are from the languages of the first inhabitants, the American Indians. Th...

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...o inscribe wedge-shaped pictographs. Each character represented a word or syllable according to the position in which it pointed. The tablets were t... ... As noted previously, all those languages scripted symbols for words or syllables. Some read from left to right, others right to left or from top ... ... the answers. Most words in ancient China could be spoken with a single syllable, so it‘s logical that the written language is logographic (i.e., ... ...language is logographic (i.e., each character represents a single word or syllable). (Our English is mainly a language of sound symbols, but we r... ...d the dollar sign.) In Chinese, some characters represent same-sounding syllables with different meanings. To become literate in Chinese, one ... ...eanings. To become literate in Chinese, one must memorize thousands of syllables rather than just the few dozen letters needed for phonetic alpha...

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...erences to Scripture passages, most books of the Bible having more than one syllable, as follows: Gen. Ex. Lev. Num. Deut. Josh. Judg. Ruth ... ...bilant, if monosyllabic, by adding an apostrophe and s; if of more than one syllable, by adding an apostrophe alone: King James's Version, Bums's p... ... formed by the aid of an apostrophe and s; of proper nouns of more than one syllable ending in a sibilant, by adding an apostrophe alone (mono- syl... ... HYPHENS- 166. A hyphen is placed at the end of a line terminating with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line (... ...ne compact word, without a hyphen, when the prefixed noun contains only one syllable, should be hyphenated when it contains two, and 62 The Univer... ...Compounds of "store" should be hyphenated when the prefix contains only one syllable; otherwise not: drug-store, feed-store (but: bookstore); grocer... ...), world-power, world- problem. 177. Compounds of "skin" with words of one syllable are to he printed as one word; with words of more than one, as... ... with "fold" are to be printed as one word, if the number contains only one syllable; if it contains more, as two : twofold, tenfold; fifteen fold,... ...e" to a noun are usually printed as one word if the noun contains only one syllable (except when ending in I); if it contains more (or is a proper ...

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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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...markings. The ‘okina is a glottal stop, similar to the sound between the syllables of “oh-oh.” In print, the correct mark for designating an ‘okin...

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...d England. Squares can be any size the rules are that each poem is as many syllables per line as the number of lines in the poem and each starts wit...

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...ld of Liloa.” In many cases the definite article “ka” becomes a part of the name and hence the preponderance in Hawaiian of names beginning with this syllable. Since recognition of its composition is essential to its proper accent, in cases where this is known with a good degree of probability through native informants, the name has been hyphenated upon its first appearanc...

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... he dropped her arm with a contemptuous grunt. Then he muttered a few guttural syllables, turned his back upon her, and addressed himself to Dickensen... ...angry. Sometimes it made them very angry, and once a man cursed him, in single syllables, stinging and tense, till a man at the table rapped him to si...

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...and was softly, scarcely audibly humming a song consisting of words of one syllable something like: “Out on you, fie on you … I and you.” Agafya, into... ...n.” “With the-ir be-ells?” Motka asked in her deep voice, drawl- ing every syllable. “With their bells. And when the end of the world comes the good w...

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...m the pulpit) of rounding an uneuphonious sentence by dwelling on a single syllable– of striking a balance in a top-heavy period by length- ening out ...

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... like drops of lead into my brain. “O Zarathustra,” it whispered scornfully, syllable by syl- lable, “thou stone of wisdom! Thou threwest thyself high...

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...rules of euphony. The dotted o; (equivalent to the French eu) of the first syllable must be followed by an e or an i. The Finnish, like all Ugrian ton...