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syllables I had never heard

 
95   791     swim, swom, or swum
95   792     swam over

95   842     to syllable
95   843     syllable
95   844     he does not know a) syllable of the matter

95   850     syllogistical

95   856     symbolical

95   896     it is a bad system
95   897     it is a good system

96   1     systematical

 
ex Classes 95 and 96, John Macdonald, A Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Dictionary, Numerically Arranged on a Very Comprehensive Scale. (Whitehall, 1817)
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Her words seemed to be too precise, rather cutting in their unfailing distinctness... Nancy put into many words syllables I had never heard sounded in them before.

ex Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
 

January 2014
tags: Willa Cather; John Macdonald; almost a song; syllables; systematicals