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Re: SCHEmata (was: ambo, duo, etc.)
- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- To: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
Peter Flynn scripsit:
> That's probably the influence of British Southern Recessive.
The default stress rule for English is "Stress unknown words on the
next-to-last syllable." This rule has of course a great many
exceptions, including the whole of the native Germanic vocabulary!
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter