Syllabic division of words

[Mark Wieder]

Mark-

Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:26:49 AM, you wrote:

> That could be di-sa-ste-ro-us.

Diphthongs still count as a single syllable vowel sound. Er, mostly.
As long as you don't count words like Hawaiian and hiatus... OK - so
you make a table of exceptions, and otherwise break at the last vowel
preceding a non-vowel char.

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-Mark Wieder
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