As you will see in Exercise 1-21, Squeezed-Out Syllables, on page 18, some words appear to
have three or more syllables, but all of them are not actually spoken.
Just when you get used to eliminating whole syllables from words, you're going to come across
other words that look as if they have only one syllable, but really need to be said with as many as
three!
Pool looks like a nice, one-syllable word,
but if you say it this way, at best, it will sound like pull, and at worst will be unintelligible to
your listener.
For clear comprehension, you need to say three syllables (pu/wuh/luh). Where did
that W come from? It's certainly not written down anywhere, but it is there just as definitely as
the P is there. The second example is a word like feel.