SYLLABLES.
A Syllable is a sound either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word.
Spelling is the art of reading by naming the letters singly, and rightly dividing words into their syllables. Or, in writing, it is the expressing of a word by its proper letters.
In Spelling, a syllable in the beginning or middle of a word ends in a vowel, unless the consonant x follow it, or two consonants, whereof the former is a liquid, or the same as the latter.
But the best and only sure rule for dividing the syllables in spelling, is to divide them as they are naturally divided in a right pronunciation.
WORDS.
Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent as signs of ideas, or notions.
There are in English nine Sorts of Words, or, as they are commonly called, Parts of Speech.
1. The Article, prefixed to substantives, when they are common names of things, to point them out, and to shew how far their signification extends.