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syllables I had never heard

 
95   791     swim, swom, or swum
95   792     swam over
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95   842     to syllable
95   843     syllable
95   844     he does not know a) syllable of the matter

95   850     syllogistical
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95   856     symbolical
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95   896     it is a bad system
95   897     it is a good system
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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