Re: Country names

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:23:00PM -0700, Garth Wallace wrote:
>
>>>Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]),
>>
>>I've never heard it with the stress on the second syllable before.
>
>
> That's a transcription of the pronunciation as given in the dictionary;
> at least in US dictionaries, emphasis is conventionally indicated with
> an accent mark FOLLOWING the emphasized syllable.
>
> Most such dictionaries would give the pronunciation of "candy" as
> (kan' d[e_]), where the [e_]  represents an e with a macron over it.
> Some also put a breve over the a to mark it as short, but most omit it as
> vowels are short by default.
>
> The above corresponds to X-SAMPA ["k&ndi].
Ah, okay. For some reason I was just in "X-SAMPA mode" (must've been the
brackets). I've been training myself to associate stress marks with the
following syllable, because I'm used to American dictionaries.