Timeline for How many syllables are in the English language?
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| Jul 30, 2020 at 8:06 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 2, 2020 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1245546916647231493 | ||
| Nov 13, 2018 at 18:56 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 14:13 | answer | added | Andrew J. Lintz | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 29, 2017 at 13:49 | answer | added | John Dallman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 29, 2017 at 4:59 | comment | added | DAN LUBARSKY | If you reduce the area to west coast that might help. For example in Texas they pronounce the word "OIL" as the word "ALL". | |
| Jan 12, 2017 at 4:48 | comment | added | herisson | Did you get any reply yet? | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 3:22 | comment | added | realzaph | Well, mostly curiosity (but I'm also thinking about making a TTS creator, so a list would be helpful) | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 2:13 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Why do you want to know, and how accurate does the number need to be? | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 2:06 | history | rollback | realzaph |
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| Jan 2, 2017 at 1:55 | comment | added | realzaph | I'm emailing Chris Barker now. I did not think about the different definitions of syllables, but for my use i can look at them and change them if need be. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 10:42 | comment | added | herisson | You might email Chris Barker, the owner of that web page, to ask him if its contents are still available somehow. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 9:40 | history | edited | user140086 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2016 at 7:03 | comment | added | herisson | I'd imagine you've thought of this already, but the answer will vary depending on how one defines a syllable. For example, the phonetician John Wells, IIRC, has proposed syllabifying words like "mattress" as "mattr.ess". A more well-known syllabification problem in British English is how to divide words like "barrel". | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 6:55 | comment | added | herisson | Related, but answers have invalid links: Is there a list of syllables contained in US English? | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 6:52 | comment | added | herisson | The "bonus" question has been asked and answered here: Do you use “a” or “an” before acronyms? I don't know the answer to the main question; I'm looking forward to learning it! | |
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| Dec 28, 2016 at 6:38 | history | asked | realzaph | CC BY-SA 3.0 |