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.
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-Mark Wieder
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