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I can't be arsed to look them all up in a dictionary so we'll go with dictionary.com as it's quicker. As before, the stressed syllable is in bold.
aloe (al-oh) bygone (bahy-gawn) cockpit (kok-pit) dactyl (dak-til]) … tutu (too-too) undone (uhn-duhn) wakeboard - not listed xylem (zahy-luhm) zero (zeer-oh) |
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www.m-w.com: Pronunciation: 'a-(")lO Pronunciation: 'dak-t&l, -"til Pronunciation: 'tü-(")tü Pronunciation: 'zI-l&m, -"lem Pronunciation: 'zE-(")rO, 'zir-(")O Quote:
Pronunciation: 'bI-"gon Pronunciation: 'käk-"pit Pronunciation: "&n-'dü, '&n- Pronunciation: 'bI-"gon Probably more than coincidence that 3 of these are compound words. Certain dictionaries only mark the (most) emphasized syllable, but that doesn't mean the other syllables are unstressed. For many of these, i couldn't imagine them being pronounced double stressed in a british accent. |
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The greater stress (indicated by the single quote (') before the syllable) is still the same way round on all those words as I indicated in my post.
Maybe stressed was the wrong word in my defintion. A quick google gives the American Heritage Dictionary definition as follows: Quote:
Unless you say "or-'inj with the accented vowel/greatest stress on the last syllable you can't have fringe. |
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Heritage Dictionary "Accent"
1. The relative prominence of a particular syllable of a word by greater intensity or by variation or modulation of pitch or tone. Now there's a very obvious difference between an unstressed vowel and stressed one, i'd have to argue that the difference its much more noticeable than between first and second stressed: The difference between the 2 stressed syllable will not cause comprehension problems if the stresses are reversed in the word, but reversal of stressed and unstressed syllable would cause difficulty. I.E. you could pronounce it ''by'gone and still be understood, but by'gone would sound like "begone" A practical difference/definition, should trump an arbitrary one. So relative prominence, is more likely to mean compared to the "melt-away" unstressed sounds. |
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The Declaration of Independance was written on parchment. I watched a show about it today. But dogs CAN look up.
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Seriously, it's been 25 years since I started calling butterflies "flutterbies", and I thought I was the only peron in the whole wide world would had thought of the "clever" play on words. |
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the rhyme for orange is doorhinge
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All of your replies got at least a chuckle out of me, but that one had me in stiches. |
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About Betsy Ross
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While the Betsy Ross House maintains she did make the flag (not much of a draw if you admit it's false), even they don't have any pictures of her beyond recreations of her showing off her flag. So I'd imagine there aren't any surviving portraits if one was even ever made. |
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In Finland the Santa delivers the gifts on Christmas Eve. He comes in, making a noise before entering the house to build up the kids' excitement, delivers the gifts and leaves. Children usually sing a song or two for him. And he usually arrives in a car, rather than with reindeer... |
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I have something more to say about this one. Santa Claus is called "Joulupukki" in Finnish (joulu = christmas, pukki = goat). The reason for this is that before this Santa Claus thing became popular in Finland, we had an own winter tradition about AD 1500-1900. A "Nuuttipukki", a man who was actually dressed as a goat, visited homes on January 13th to drink and eat whatever there were left from Christmas foods and beer. Ukko was the god of thunder in pre-Christian Finnish mythology, and he had nothing to do with Santa Claus or Nuuttipukki.
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In German, Asia is "Asien", Europe is "Europa", Australia is "Australien", and Antarctica is the "Antarctis". Only "Amerika" starts and ends with the same letter (not counting "Süd" and "Nord", of course). Don "mumble mumble Anglo-Centrists mumble mumble" Enrico |
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215. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (the heart is not a muscle)
no no no no! the tongue is the strongest muscle for its size, but not the strongest muscle in your body! And the heart is definitely a muscle which is also called ''cardiac muscle'' |
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You forgot Afrika.
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You are right. "Amerika" and "Afrika" start and end with the same letter in German.
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