Re: Country names
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 1:06 |
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:23:00PM -0700, Garth Wallace wrote:
> >Candy \Can"dy\ (k[a^]n"d[y^]),
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> 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].
-Mark
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