"MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable……" — Ambrose Bierce

"MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions."

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