syllable (n.)
- allophone
- alveolar
- antistrophe
- antonym
- articulation
- aspiration
- assimilation
- atom
- bilabial
- bit
- book
- burden
- canto
- check
- chorus
- consonant
- continuant
- couplet
- crumb
- dental
- diphthong
- dissimilation
- distich
- envoi
- explosive
- expression
- glide
- guttural
- homograph
- homonym
- homophone
- jot
- labial
- labiodental
- lateral
- lexeme
- line
- lingual
- liquid
- locution
- logos
- lota
- measure
- metonym
- modicum
- modification
- monosyllable
- morphophoneme
- mute
- nasal
- occlusive
- octave
- octet
- ounce
- palatal
- peak
- pharyngeal
- phone
- phoneme
- plosive
- polysyllable
- quatrain
- refrain
- semivowel
- septet
- sestet
- sextet
- shred
- sonant
- sonority
- spell
- stanza
- stave
- stop
- strain
- strophe
- surd
- synonym
- tercet
- term
- triplet
- usage
- utterance
- velar
- verbalism
- verse
- vocable
- voice
- voicing
- vowel
- whit
- word
Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and space,
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark
To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.
A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory,
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names
On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
