: Re: Is there a tool for determining the number of on in a word for the purpose of writing haiku? In America at least, Haiku are commonly taught to students as poems having 5, 7, then 5 syllables,

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Or would it even be possible to create a tool to consistently determine the number of on in a language other than Japanese?

No, it isn't. Or rather, it is possible to count something consistently, but if you're looking at a language like English, there is no agreement about what "on" would correspond to.

As the Wikipedia article you linked to mentioned, the equivalent general linguistic concept is the "mora" (from Latin, plural "morae"). As far as I know, there is no general agreement about how to count morae in modern English. See the Linguistics SE question How would a haiku look in English using morae?

There are specific theories that use the term "mora", or similar concepts, to describe certain rules in English that seem to be related to syllable "weight", but because of the differences in how English and Japanese use consonant sounds, it's not really directly comparable to the Japanese concept.

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