Re: USAGE: Stress in English

Trebor Jung scripsit:

> Did old English have phonemic stress?
Probably not, but we don't really have good enough records to say.  The
general assumption is that stress fell on the first nonprefix syllable,
where the list of prefixes is short and closed, as in native words today.

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