Re: Offensive stress (was: those irregular prepositions)
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 23, 2006, 14:18 |
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On 6/23/06, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
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> 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