USAGE: Latin syllables

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> "However, a stop + a liquid count as a single consonant and go with
> the following vowel."   There's also a note that this rule may be
> broken for purposes of poetical meter, reverting to the general
> "last consonant goes with the second vowel" case; thus "integrum"
> could appear in a line of a poem where a light/heavy/light pattern
> were called for.  Seems like cheating to me, though. :)
"I don't see why poetic license should entitle a man to get something wrong."
        --Harold Ross, original editor of the _New Yorker_

Vulgar Latin apparently didn't have this rule:  TE-ne-bras (darkness.ACC)
became in Spanish te-NEb-ra.

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