From long experience with teaching undergraduates, I infer that high-school English teachers are instructing their poetry students to count syllables. I don’t know when this started; perhaps with the ...

Anna Scretching-Cole helps students identify syllables in spoken words and learn Y and Z. Anna Scretching-Cole helps students identify syllables in spoken words and learn about letters Y and Z.

How many syllables are in your name? You probably already know off the top of your head, but count them anyway. I have six. Most of us do the same thing when we're counting. Putting more weight than ...