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Re: Offensive stress (was: those irregular prepositions)

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Friday, June 23, 2006, 14:18
On 6/23/06, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
> > Actually I think it's a spreading of the idea that the verb has the accent > on the last (or at least the later) syllable, while the noun has it on the > first (or at least the earlier) syllable. > OFFense is the noun, ofFEND is the verb > (I know it really has only one F.) > DEfense is the noun, deFEND is the verb >
Really? That's quite interesting, I've always (and so has everyone around me) said ofFENCE and deFENCE, because the noun and verb forms were different; reCORD and REcord are distinguished by stress, though. Eugene