Does the word "mobile" have two syllables or 3? pls answer this one, it will settle a family arguement thats starting to get heated. lol. silly.
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I say "Moe - Bull", which has two. Dictionary.com says it has two, also.
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How would you even say it with three syllables? Just curious?
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Although the dictionaries I have seen always say that mobile has two syllables, when I was a student in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, a majority of my fellow students pronounced it with three syllables when it meant the object with independently balanced components. The pronounciation was mow-bill-ee, with the stress on the first syllable. Since then, I have only come across the pronounciation occasionally, so that I regard it as an unusual alternative pronounciation probably only current in the United Kingdom. I am not aware of any other meaning of the word ever having three syllables.
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