The "ing" and "ham" are in themselves a historical guide to the days in which the various villages received their names, these two syllables being a certain indication of a Saxon settlement, the "home of the sons, or descendants of" whatever person the first syllable indicates.

"Both the ten-syllable and the eight-syllable verses are iambics.

A SYLLABLE is a word or a part of a word pronounced by one effort of the voice.

The long syllable is the spirit of the Roman (and Greek) verse; the short syllable is the essence of ours.

It led him to new and variant ways of defining accent; some of which seem to imply a division of consonants from their vowels in utterance, or to suggest that syllables are not the least parts of spoken words.

The last four syllables vato maho are probably the remnant of another namaskâranamo bhagavato Mahâvîrasya.

The last syllable is groom.

Again: "A syllable is a sound, either simple or compound, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice.

"A Syllable is a complete Sound uttered in one Breath."British Gram., p. 32; Buchanan's, 5. (21.)

"A syllable is long when the accent is on the vowel, as, P=all, s=ale, m=o=use, cr=eature.

"In chains thy syllables are linkt."Ib., p. 318.

As the anapest ends with a long syllable, its rhymes are naturally single; and a short syllable after this, producing double rhyme, is, of course, supernumerary: so are the two, when the rhyme is triple.

The syllables of which the foot consists, when the foot is not a syllable in itself, are subdivisions of the pulsations.

In both Nahuatl and Maya this syllable is the radicle of various words meaning to increase, enlarge, to grow strong or great, etc.]

"A syllable is long when the accent is on the vowel, as, P=all, s=ale, m=o=use, cr=eature.

Suffice it to observe, that they divide certain accented syllables into long and short, and say nothing of the unaccented; whereas it is plain, and acknowledged even by Murray and Sheridan themselves, that in "ant, bonnet, hunger" and the like, the unaccented syllables are the only short ones: the rest can be, and here are, lengthened.

* * * * A syllable in pronunciation is an indivisible thing; and strange as it may appear, what is indivisible in utterance is divided in writing: when the very purpose of dividing words into syllables in writing, is to lead the learner to a just pronunciation.

The first syllable being retrenched from an anapest, there remains an iambus.

The first syllable of the name is a personal appellation which doubtless appears in Babbicombe; the second is derived from the neighbouring stream.

A Syllable is one or more letters pronounced in one sound; and is either a word, as, a, an, ant; or a part of a word, as di in dial.

Let it be remembered that any syllable with either of these marks over it is the accented syllable, whose sound will be long or short according to the slant of the mark.

The long syllable is the spirit of the Roman (and Greek) verse; the short syllable is the essence of ours.