NAME

Lingua::Syllable - attempt to return number of syllables in a word

DESCRIPTION

Pulls in two modules in an attempt to find the number of syllables in an (English) word.

PREREQUISITES

        Lingua::EN::syllable;
        Lingua::Rhyme;

FUNCTION

&syllable_count ($word)

Returns the number of syllables thought to be in a word, or undef.

Uses Lingua::EN::Rhyme if there is no entry in the Rhyming Dictionary available through Lingua::Rhyme.

SEE ALSO

the Lingua::EN::Syllable manpage; the Lingua::Rhyme manpage; perl(1).

AUTHOR

Lee Goddard <lgoddard@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) Lee Goddard, 2001.

This software is supplied, and may be used, under the same terms as Perl itself.