Shannon Williams is currently engaged to Gregg Allman. She has been in one celebrity relationship averaging approximately 4.7 years. She has never been married. Shannon Williams' Relationships.
1 A syllable is the sound of a vowel (A, E, I, O, U) that is created when pronouncing the letters A, E, I, O, U, or Y. 2  The letter Y is a vowel only if it creates an A, E, I, O, or U sound.3  examples: fry, try, cry, & dry. 4  The number of times that you hear the sound of a vowel is the number of syllables in a word. When two (or more) vowels are next to each other, the number of syllables depends on the number of vowel sounds. 2  examples: free (1 syllable), eat (1 syllable), & bio (2 syllables). 3  If a vowel is silent, it is not counted as a syllable.
A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants. b. One or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable. 2.