Q: any reason that, when doing on screen lyrics, you break them up by word instead of syllables?
A: sure. the best reason for me to choose to show the whole word instantly instead of one syllable at a time would be: if i think the single-syllable way would look like crap. Generally i've experimented with a wide range of methods and timings for expressing lyrics on screen, and i'm usually going for what is most potent. timing is essential, so indeed i've tried the single-syllable way, but it almost always looks terrible and actually less potent, probably because we're so used to reading the words the way they are. by a similar token, sometimes in fact single-words is too awkward also, so i sometimes opt for entire phrases. i'm often pretty exhaustive in the amount of ways i try it, in search of the  most effective