The syllabicity of spoken "Canton" and "Akron"

[Preface:  The nitty-gritty questions about pronunciation discussed below are expressed in common spelling (not a phonetic alphabet) because the people who have written them down here are non-phoneticians.  What they have recorded are their best approximations of how they think they are saying "Canton".] After reading "'Cant-idates'" (11/12/25) and "Can't even" (11/13/25), I submitted this […]