See prosodiac on Wiktionary
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"text": "This is in very brief “the ingrained musicality” of Khusrau’s ghazals. His prosodiac finesse in succeeding to avoid even شکست روا is added to it.",
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"ref": "2017 December 31, vtheoc...@gmail.com [Vasilis], “How pronounce \"Nausicaa\"?”, in humanities.classics (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:",
"text": "As regards the αυ diphthong, when I want to read it as two syllabes (today's speech is not prosodiac so it does not apply to modern greek^([sic])) I make it sound like aw, in any other case αβ or αφ as dictated by the modern greek^([sic]) grammar rules, however most Greeks pronounce β and φ with their upper teeth in contact with their low lip which I believe is wrong.",
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