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• Our author has eſtabliſhed clear practicable rules for articulation, and conſequently for facilitating to foreigners the pronouncing and ſyllabification of the Engliſh language; and that upon principles which are in common to all languages.
• syllabize &c. A verb & a noun are clearly sometimes needed for the notion of dividing words into syllables. The possible pairs seem to be the following (the number after each word means — 1, that it is in fairly common use; 2, that it is on record; 3, that it is not given in OED): —   syllabate 3    syllabation 2  syllabicate 2    syllabication 1  syllabify 2      syllabification 1  syllabize 1     syllabization 3 One first-class verb, two first-class nouns, but neither of those nouns belonging to that verb. It is absurd enough, & any of several ways out would do; that indeed is why none of them is taken. The best thing would be to accept the most recognized verb syllabize, give it the now non-existent noun syllabization, & relegate all the rest to the <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Superfluous words</span>; but there is no authority both willing & able to issue such decrees.
• Syllábify is a back-formation from syllabification, which in turn seems to be coined directly on the basis of Latin syllabificare.