Billy Connolly

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

Scottish Comedian

Jeremih

It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.

American Musician

K. Flay

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

Sinead O'Connor

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

Irish Musician

Kate Smith

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Kevin Spacey

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

American Actor

Tahar Ben Jelloun

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

French Poet

Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

French Author

Michael Shanks

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

Canadian Actor

George Bernard Shaw

Irish Playwright

Syllables are specific to language; 'vowel sound' varies across languages.

English Only

Some syllables are emphasized more than others in a word, changing its meaning.

Word Stress

Not all vowel sounds form syllables; silent vowels are often present.

Vowel Variations

In music, syllables can represent rhythm; each syllable matches a note's length.

Musical Rhythm

Musical syllables don't always match word syllables; 'do-re-mi' can be one word.

Sol-fa Syllables

Syllables determine a poem's rhythm or meter, important in poetry analysis.

Poetic Meter

Finding syllable boundaries can be difficult; dialects may split words differently.

Not Always Clear

Understanding syllables improves pronunciation and fluency when reading aloud.

Reading Aloud

 to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the ancestors or anticipate the promise of the children? And yet, that dreadful fate is indeed the plight of somebody somewhere on Earth roughly every two weeks, because every two weeks, some elder dies and carries with him into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue.

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 distinguishing factor we found about how visionaries talk is that they're not highly complex or theoretical in fact the world's top visionaries communicate 20% more clearly than the average communicator how do you measure clarity it's fewer syllables per word it's fewer

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 but here I am one solution was to rehearse a machine gun delivery in which every syllable of a second will have its importance and hope the audience will be able to follow me what I no no no no now

The journey across the...

 was until I got dropped kicked by a word with more syllables in the back of a package of hostess cupcakes membra no proliferative glomerulonephritis that's a mouthful or a lungful for my sister

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 One of the most important things in Shakespeare's language is his use of stress. Not that kind of stress, but the way we emphasize certain syllables in words more than others.

Why Shakespeare loved...

 with just three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The waters of poetry run wide and deep. Poetry has evolved over time, and perhaps now more than ever,

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 Where, Barry? Where? Tell us, Barry. eagerly awaits your next syllable. What will it be? What gem of knowledge? What pearl of wisdom?

Raspyni Brothers:...

 take a look at these one syllable words it may look like nonsense but if you say the words out loud over and over faster and faster

The Gibberish Game PIPE...

 like the best it's the biggest number with one syllable trifle fold dry cuts itself fold the fold is important because it allows

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 Basho was a brilliant man. He said more with less than any human that I have ever read or talked to. Basho, in 17 syllables,