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1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
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28. _What is a word of three syllables called?_
A trisyllable.

29. _What is a word of more than three syllables called?_
A polysyllable.

30. _What is the Ultimate syllable of a word?_
The last syllable.

31. _What is the Penultimate syllable?_
Next to the last syllable in a word.

32. _What is the Antepenultimate syllable?_
The last syllable but two in a word.

33. _What is the Preantepenultimate syllable?_
The last syllable but three in a word.

34. _What other way may the syllables be described?_
In their numerical order; as, first, second, etc.

35. _How many syllables can a word have?_
As many as it has vowels or diphthongs sounded.

36. _How many words in the English language?_
About one hundred and twenty thousand.

37. _How are words divided in reference to form?_
Into simple and compound.
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