Monosyllabic? No it's not!!

[simes_d]

Why does the wod monosyllabic have so many syllables?

[thewillow]

Same reason as why there's only one Monopolies Commission.

[bobbobley]

probably for the same reason that the word abbreviated is so long.

[sarah123]

And why gullible isn't in the dictionary ;-))

[Jenny Tools]

So the dyslexic person can't spell it.

No not it

Monosyllabic

[Bob...]

I didn't know monosyllabic was a wod !

[bernardo]

Because it is a combination of "mono-" from the Greek meaning "one"; the root from "syllable", and the suffix "-ic" to make an adjectival form.
More to the point, why does "univocalic" have 4 different vowels? Shouldn't it be "onovocoloc"? And why is "long" short? And why don't we make it compulsory to write "red" in red every time we write it? Or "upside-down" upside-down? Or "stretched" stretched? Or [continued on page 94]

[Dave Potts]

...and why no-one can imagine a world with no hypothetical situations. I'll get me coat...

[MikeMikeMike]

And why nails are so pointy? ... Actually, now I come to think of it, that makes a lot of sense.

[bernardo]

And why do questions always end with a question mark?