Re: Making modifiers out of nouns

veritosproject@GMAIL.COM quoted:
On 4/28/07, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:

> Gracías! (Now did I spell that right.)
>
No, you didn't. On a 3+ syllable word, the accent defaults to the
penultimate. The accent is unnecessary. OWNED! Just kidding.
 >>

Just to clarify, that's a two-syllable word, and since the word
ends in "s", stress is naturally on the penultimate--the /a/.  As
such, there's no accent needed; the stress is on the /a/.

-David
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