Yet I will not altogether blame it, for it made me know, as nothing else could, the resources of our tongue in that sort; and in the revolt from the slavish bondage I took upon myself I did not go so far as to plunge into any very wild
polysyllabic excesses.
I have jotted down the very words of their argument, but now it degenerates into a mere noisy wrangle with much
polysyllabic scientific jargon upon each side.
A man who intermingled nameless argot with
polysyllabic and technical terms, he would seem sometimes the veriest criminal, in speech, face, expression, everything; at other times the cultured and polished gentleman, and again, the philosopher and scientist.
Mrs Betty Higden was herself in a moment, and brought them all to order with that speed, that Sloppy, stopping short in a
polysyllabic bellow, transferred his energy to the mangle, and had taken several penitential turns before he could be stopped.
He talked of his hated schooldays ("It was a tough school - put it this way, we had our own coroner"), but of how his English teacher, John Malone, instilled in him and his classmates a love of poetry: "It became a hothouse of poetic competitiveness - it was a badge of honour to use
polysyllabic speech at all times.
ANGLO-AFRICANHis dry, wry humour and his predilection for
polysyllabic terminology (meaning his love of long words) made him almost a caricature of the typical British academic.
The errors were largely present in the medial parts of
polysyllabic words, which parallels other research suggesting that encoding medial phonemes requires considerably greater processing skill than encoding initial and final phonemes, and that the cognitive load is greater when words are
polysyllabic (Cassady & Smith, 2004; Cassady, Smith & Putman, 2008; Larkin, Williams & Blaggan, 2013).
The other is adding "'s" [apostrophe "s"] to form the possessive of
polysyllabic names such as "Socrates's" or "Ulysses's."
The auditory performance was assessed using Listening Progress Profile Test (LPPT) and Monosyllabic Trochee
Polysyllabic Test (MTP), the subsections of Evaluation of Auditory Responses to Speech (EARS) test battery.
Years of listening have nailed his words into my head: brittle consonants and yowled vowels, a spray of
polysyllabic elocution cut abruptly short by something funny, something wounding, and thus moving, bristling, ragged with need.