People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Transmogrification-that's the right word. It's been on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't quite catch it. It's a cumbersome word. It rolls through your mouth and then staccatos onto the floor in chunks of unnecessary syllables, like echoes of a thought already gone. It is a transformation, a metamorphosis that occurred not because I'd changed but because the rest of the world had.

"The muffled syllables that Nature speaks

I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

"I don't mean to be rude-" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

In a society in which equality is a fact not merely a word words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.