#syllable

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

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#grammar #maniac #syllable #vowels #grammar

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables. ↗

— Vernon Duke

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#meant #paris #really #required #rhythm

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. ↗

— Michael Shanks

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#network #protective #shows #syllable #writers