People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

In a society in which equality is a fact not merely a word words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.