Animal nick names (Moose), someone who's gotten a "neither female nor male name", polysyllables, "K or C or Y", "shortened, not stirred" names, "I'm calling you Bob" etc. ❋ Cath@VWXYNot? (2009)
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but polysyllables will never hurt me,” Manni retorted. ❋ Susan Fales-Hill (2010)
Do you really think William F. Buckley Jr. or George Will would just trash, or at least trash in polysyllables rather than invective? ❋ Unknown (2009)
The first thing ‘Rhyme’ does is define itself: “when we speak of rhyme, we usually have in mind only two types of agreement: different initial sounds and identical following sounds,...or polysyllables which correspond at every point except one...” ❋ EILEEN (2009)
That makes it hard for a translator to stick with the polysyllables that Chaucer often used for rhythmic effect. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Winston Churchill, who wrote a treatise on the use of rhetoric in political speech at the age of 22, himself once opened an attack on his political opponents, saying "These professional intellectuals who revel in decimals and polysyllables ...." ❋ Unknown (2008)
There may be a point or two in there, but between the banal thoughts, the crashing polysyllables, and the air of insulting hostility, no person who values his or her time would waste it on this nonsense. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
We can use short, plain words or sesquipedalian polysyllables; we may want to use both. ❋ M-mv (2004)
Hugh had spoken in polysyllables about a surgical procedure. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Pratt it is succinct as Latin, compact of long rolling polysyllables and little and often pithy particles, and for beauty of sound a dream. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Tonality in Austronesian Languages, 1993 cites a manuscript by Bender placing Marshallese primary stress on the final syllable of polysyllables. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The progress made by the children may be stated to have been as follows: on the 16th February, 1844 — 14 were able to read polysyllables. 2 were able to read monosyllables. 2 could repeat the cardinal numbers. 14 were in addition. 3 in subtraction. 9 in multiplication. 2 in division. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Over and over I studied the hard names and measures, conned again and again the polysyllables; hoping to be able to arrive some time at an intelligible definition of the terms. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), ALIAS (a mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture). ❋ Unknown (2003)
Everyone seemed to be feeling better in the morning, they talked to one another in polysyllables, anyway. ❋ Wheeler, Sarah (1996)
I walked into the hall, to find utter panic, of the Oxford variety: tight voices, careful polysyllables, a certain amount of wringing of hands. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1995)
“If it were less daft on polysyllables, it might hear her monosyllabic speech.” ❋ Laurie Lisle (1986)
