Re: How are syllable boundaries determined

["Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:47:23 +1300, benlizross
<benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:459732CB.66DA@xxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

> Peter T. Daniels wrote:

[...]

>> In Chicago, the term "U-boat" is known, because the U-505
>> has been on display at the Museum of Science and
>> Industry for 50 years or so. Did the term persist in
>> English usage elsewhere for any appreciable time after
>> the cessation of hostilities?

> I certainly learned it in Vancouver in the 1950s, though
> whether that's an appreciable time I can't say. It
> referred specifically to German submarines of WWII. Of
> course there was a lot more talk about the war then, and
> lots more people around who had lived through it.

> Come to look it up, it's right here in the Concise Oxford
> Dictionary. Must be pretty well known.

It's also in M-W OnLine and AHD4.

Brian