Monosyllables

Monosyllables or long rambling monologues about nothing in particular?

Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: Not A Couple (Unless They Are) 2010

_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

RULE I. Monosyllables ending in _f, l_, or _s_, double the final or ending consonant when it is preceded by a _single_ vowel; as _staff, mill, pass_.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Here is but two Words for four Lines, except Monosyllables.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Rule III: “Monosyllables or words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant on receiving a suffix beginning with a vowel.”

Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Elmer W. Cavins

Monosyllables ending in any consonant but _f, l_, or _s_, never double the final consonant when it is preceded by a _single_ vowel; as,

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Monosyllables are always expressive, but seldom more comprehensive than in this instance.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 Various

Monosyllables in themselves always produce a staccato effect, which tends to make all rhythm composed of them monotonous, if, indeed, it does not destroy it altogether.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

_Monosyllables_, I mention him not as a Classick, but because the

An apology for the study of northern antiquities Elizabeth Elstob 1719