Syllables World: Mastering Syllable Identification

How many syllables in Publish?

publish has 2 syllables

pub-lish

To make information available to the public, especially by printing it in a book, magazine, or newspaper.

The first syllable has the vowel sound 'u' and the second syllable has the vowel sound 'i'. The consonants are 'p', 'b', 'l', 's', and 'h'.

Verb

The newspaper will publish the results of the election tomorrow.
The author is excited to publish her new book.
The scientific journal will only publish articles that have been peer-reviewed.
The company will publish a new catalog next month.
The government has decided to publish the names of the companies that are violating environmental regulations.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.