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Originally Posted by sony_fox
Stephen Donaldson
CJ Cherryh and Janny Wurts
Genre fiction wordsmiths
(Cherryh is pronounced Cherry 1 sylabel, genre is also 1) hence 7 and 5
Lee Child's Jack Reacher
Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden (I got this one wrong - edited it for you)
Unusual detectives
(unusual =2 de-tect-ives =3 total 5)
No pages turn
on an electronic book but
reading's pleasure gained
(electronic =3)
Haiku, it is all
Ab-out how you read the words
parse cor-rect-ly
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Cherryh - (Chair-ee) - 2 syl
Genre - (Zhan-reh) - 2 syl
Unusual - (Un-u-zhu-al) - 4 syl (possibly 3, un-u-zhul)
Electronic - (E-lec-tron-ic) - 4 syl (only 3 if you say Lec-Tron-Ic
Parse (1) correctly (3) = 4
Unless CJ Cherryh actually pronounced her last name as 1 syl. I don't really know as I've never heard it pronounced.