Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

Andreas Johansson skrev:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
>
>> Beijing is still _Peking_ ['pe:kiN] in Swedish.
>
> You'll also hear [be'jIN] based on the pinyin spelling. Don't ask me why the
> accent changes.
Because of the period when foreign
words were assumed to be French is
only 150 years gone, give or take
50 years.

Now why don't English people hear
French words with final stress?

/BP

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