Re: "Double stressed" words

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> True, but even if it has antepenultimate stress in Westron, that
> doesn't necessarily imply that it does so in Quenya.  Consider
> the differences between the English and French pronunciations of
> "Paris".
Fair enough, and even better examples are the cities of Leghorn, Meiland, and
Rzym, all in Wl/ochy.

But more obscure or more recent objects often have the same name in all languages.
In the field of newspapers, we have Die Welt and Le Monde,
but the People's Daily, not Renmin Ribao.

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