Re: Bisyllabic or Disyllabic?

Thanks for your reply! Even tho i've had to get off the computer since i
posted my query, i *still* haven't looked it up... :-)

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:51:08PM +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 9:35 pm -0400 8/8/00, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[snip]
> ...
> occur - it would've sounded like a barbaric mangling of languages!
Although some would say the same about the widespread use of
"hexadecimal".... :-)

>
> Therefor IMHO 'disyllabic' is the preferred form (indeed, my dictionary
> does not list *bisyllabic); to me saying 'bisyllabic' would be just as odd
> as saying *biphthong   ;)
LOL!! "biphthong" sounds funny, indeed. Almost sounds like a pun on
"beef-thong"... Though I wonder, are there such things as triphthongs?


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