Re: CHAT: Importance of stress
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 29, 2000, 4:14 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> But in pronunciation it was /a.bEst/. The rules of Latin versification and
> the development of words into the Romance langs makes this quite certain.
Ah, thanks. It seemed odd to me that it should be pronounced as ab-est
(which was the claim made in the dictionary)
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