A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but 'door' had just one ('door'). Breaking ...

With his sixth book "The Fish and the Not Fish," Peter Markus wanted write a book that was the first of its kind. So Markus, 48, of Trenton, conceived the idea of "Fish" (Dzanc Books $14.95), a book ...

Parents sometimes opt for short, one-syllable names to balance out a longer last name or j. There’s a category of trendy names that have “one” thing in common: They are one-syllable girl names.