They used a smart-mouthed lawyer, he didn't give us an extra syllable.

Thus, music compilers began to add three more shapes to their books to match the extra syllables.

Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with extra syllables.

Couldn't he waste an extra syllable to be polite?

In fact, I should doubt that a lazy mouth would bother to add an extra syllable.

"I hope you will not allow an occasional extra syllable from an aging mind to be the cause of any serious misunderstanding between us."

The extra syllables would mean that Fistarteh-thuktun had a mate.

It's got almost an extra syllable in it, like "muh-een."

There are several other verb forms which change the stem by adding an extra syllable before the final 'a'.

"I'll shut up," he mumbled, although a few extra syllables found their way into that phrase, too.