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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But no one really knew, since he seldom spoke, except in monosyllables, and ignored most greetings.
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Figure 3.5 Percentage low vowel in variable monosyllables and prefixed and inflected disyllables.
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He's even something of a linguist apparently he can grunt monosyllables in five languages.
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He said he would not ever call me by a monosyllable again, and in fact he never did.
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He wandered round her flat, answering her attempts at conversation with monosyllables.
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Sanskrit is unique as these monosyllables are held to represent the basic energies of the universe.
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She did not respond to any greeting that day with more than a monosyllable .
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This turns out to be a strange sort of monosyllabism that has such a small proportion of its words as free monosyllables.