Counting Syllables

[Rick Harrison]

Yes, I’m looking into that.  Web-scraping isn’t fun though, and it can be a lot of work.
One also has to make sure it doesn’t violate company policies etc.  I’m not a fan
of getting sued.

Rick

> On Mar 24, 2022, at 1:55 AM, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> You could scrape an online dictionary to obtain the syllabification for each given word.
> 
> For example, if you investigate https://www.dictionary.com/browse/syllabification <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/syllabification> <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/syllabification <https://www.dictionary.com/browse/syllabification>>, you can find the query that yielded "syl·lab·i·fi·ca·tion."
> 
> You might find other dictionaries that make it easier.
> 
> — Dick