The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines. |
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented. |
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The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter. |
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This involves the names of social groups that are derived from monosyllabic adjectives, like black and gay. |
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Chinese is a monosyllabic language, where a single sound represents one word. |
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As one would expect, his subjects are largely misanthropic, monosyllabic, malnourished mouth-breathers, all with the same vacant, 100-yard stare. |
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This was a lot of theory to put on a hitherto monosyllabic himbo's shoulders. |
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A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words. |
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He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage. |
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With his inflectionless, monosyllabic drawl and general lack of animation, how could they tell when Blaine had thawed again? |
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Surly, monosyllabic drivers aside, it's a minor miracle if the bus actually rolls up at all! |
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The end result can sometimes resemble a conversation between two monosyllabic adolescents. |
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Either way, give me this lot over a bunch of monosyllabic scowlers any day. |
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Our monosyllabic waiter briefly sprung into life when it came to choosing from the wine list. |
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In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other. |
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Owen had been very short with him, his answers to Sam's questions almost monosyllabic. |
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So I eventually called up the helpline, and the monosyllabic customer advisor at the end of the phone informed me that there was indeed a delay. |
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Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning. |
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I would have sensed if there had been any anxiety, but it was only the night before the race that he began to be monosyllabic. |
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Well, that's great, I told myself, I managed to squeeze about seven monosyllabic words into that lovely conversation. |
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He tried multiple times to draw me into a conversation but I only responded with monosyllabic answers. |
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We listed a few words that we claimed were just exceptions to the claim that monosyllabic adjectives inflect, and we included wrong on that list. |
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A movie theatre concession girl, Debbie, meets the store clerk at a laundromat and tries to make awkward, one-sided, monosyllabic conversation. |
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There are not very many monosyllabic English nouns that have successfully resisted being verbed, but faith is one of them. |
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It used to be that whenever I called such places, I would be greeted by people who sounded like monosyllabic, grumpy teenagers. |
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He is permanently monosyllabic unless the subject happens to be narrow-gauge North American railways, and he never uses a word where a silent, dismissive glare would do. |
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This is the story of violence, betrayal, love, and survival told in a series of monosyllabic guttural sounds, set against the backdrop of volcanic eruptions and pterodactyls. |
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She loves hard, consonantly monosyllabic words: heft, prank, stint, knot, tuck, hunch. |
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Firstly, it is forbidden to employ monosyllabic words when a polysyllabic alternative is available. |
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The most typical call is a monosyllabic chirp that sounds very much like the chirp of the common House Sparrow, amplified. |
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It would be hard to find a bigger contrast with the gung-ho, monosyllabic culture that turned RBS into an acquisition machine. |
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He remained until 1988, another record. Neither witty nor eloquent, Mr Mansfield could be monosyllabic in public. |
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Like Thai, Vietnamese is basically a monosyllabic language, but it has many words of two or more syllables. |
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In other words, it was hardly worth the effort. Of course that many words word have stretched his monosyllabic vocabulary. |
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And on the other hand the monosyllabic languages, among which are the southern mongolic, chinese, northern, tibeto-burman and thai. |
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The speech stimuli were eight phonetically balanced monosyllabic word lists, uttered by a male and a female speakers. |
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Like other languages of the Sino-Tibetan group, Burmese is monosyllabic. |
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I think I'll stick to monosyllabic and disyllabic words today. |
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As you know he had a stroke in 1985 and lost the ability to speak, apart from a few dozen monosyllabic words like yes and no, and other basic simple things. |
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For those who just can't get enough of Vin Diesel's monosyllabic delivery, the ex-bouncer makes his second star turn of the year in this high-seas action flick. |
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His first language was Russian, then he learned Swedish, but chooses to perform in monosyllabic broken English. |
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His response, as he remembered it then, had been barely more than monosyllabic. |
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While the boys, many of whom forgot to put on underwear, grunt in monosyllabic tones. |
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On examination, he was anxious, diaphoretic, and monosyllabic. |
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Having inspected the larder, Mary decided to prepare a steak pudding and when Bertha's monosyllabic husband, Davy, took a second helping her fate was sealed. |
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By contrast, this character is a Latino version of Hawk, the darkly menacing, monosyllabic backup man he created for his Spenser detective series. |
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He's very monosyllabic, and could put to sleep an over stimulated mule. |
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The vocalizations of falconids are simple, repeated monosyllabic calls, described variously as cackles, chatters, squawks, croaks, wails and whines. |
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Interestingly, accent 1 generally occurs in words that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, and accent 2 in words that were polysyllabic. |
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Their early interviews were monosyllabic to the point of churlishness – a consequence of the fact that they have never liked talking about themselves. |
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Juliet uses monosyllabic words with Romeo but uses formal language with Paris. |
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The findings of the study revealed that the perception of monosyllabic words was significantly lower than the perception of disyllabic words. |
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Chinese words generally comprise one or two monosyllabic written characters, each of which can also stand alone as an unbound morpheme. |
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I am a simple bar-tender, heir to a monosyllabic sailor who was down to his last eye when he came ashore. |
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Its drumming is forceful and monosyllabic. |
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The improvement is significant as well on the tonal sensitivity as on the threshold of vocal intelligibility with a conservation of the percentage of speech discrimination for monosyllabic words. |
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It is more complicated to determine the quantity of the monosyllabic clitics. |
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The word polysyllabic is autological, but the word monosyllabic is not. |
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Trommer also shows that inflectional affixes which appear to be bisyllabic must either be decomposed into different markers or must be underlyingly monosyllabic. |
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