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

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

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

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.