>>>>>Are there any VFP code obuscation products out there?
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>>>>Nick
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>>>>Don't you want to be sure that people know what te hell you're talking about, using quadrisyllabic words? :-)
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>>>Now since when is "shn" a syllable?
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>>Why, since it became a sound and was used in a word.
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>The way we learned to count syllables was "count the vowels". Or, if you're not sure, try to sing the word, one syllable - one note. Including the funny cases where the song requires the singer to extend the r-as-vowel (which actually happens quite often - drvo (tree), srce (heart), prvi (first), rđa (rust)... and, surprise surprise, Hrvatska (Croatia) and Srbija (Serbia) :).
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>Is this another area where English language has its own units of measure?

One could argue that pronouncing "tion" as "shn" is lazy and that it should be "shion" (like a Jamaican would pronounce it). But I suppose then it would really be 2 syllables. "shee-on" :-)

So let sleeping dogs lie. (and yes, I know, a dog can't tell a lie, esp. when it's asleep). :-)