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What are the syllabification rules for English?
I am trying to break a word down into syllables and am not quite sure how to do it for English. Some problems I face:
The letter-to-sound rules are not one-to-one. As an example, notice that ...
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How many syllables are there in the word “fire”?
We were making up Haiku, and there was some disagreement about the number of syllables in "fire." Now granted Haiku isn't technically about syllables (see on), so technically it was a meaningless ...
