Syllabic division of words

[Mark Swindell]

The rules of syllabication are more complex than one would think.   
Root words, prefixes, suffixes and quite a few other little things  
factor in.  The page Richard cited is good.

di-sas-trous, but re-string

cu-ri-ous

yel-low, but well-be-ing

I wonder if the thing to do would be to buy or acquire a software  
dictionary and  somehow strip out the keywords and their corresponding  
syllabication, and place them into a new table of one's own.

Mark


On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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