On 9 May 2005 16:52:06 -0700, credoquaabsurdum
<credoquaabsurdum@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It is now worth mentioning that stress on the first syllable is simply
> not listed in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate. Chris, I cannot understand
> where you got the idea that putting stress on the first syllable might
> be an American innovation.
Americans put stress on all sorts of weird syllables. That might be the
only one they don't put stress on (or they might not have read M-W, the
same way Brits obviously haven't read the CsOED).
> Could you please describe to me any actual person on God's green earth
> (not six feet or less beneath it) who has not been exposed to American
> English?
By "exposed to" I meant greater than usual exposure (having lived there,
having an American partner/spouse/whatever).
> Pound down those cheeseburgers, boys! Mmm-mmm good!
I prefer the ones we got in France[1], but they kilo them not pound
them...
[1] There's a famous poem about the Burgers of Calais...
Chris C
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