Syllable Word

Famous quotes containing the words syllable and/or word:

“It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“As far as I’m concerned, “whom” is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)