Re: USAGE: -ic(al) Re: [CONLANG] Most developed conlang

Stevo wrote:
In a message dated 4/29/2007 12:44:25 PM Central Daylight Time,
rfmilly@MSN.COM writes:


> Curious sidenote: while most US cities with -polis (Annapolis,
> Minneapolis,
> others?) have antepenultimate stress,
> Indianapolis.
And only 200 miles away from me; how soon we forget. But many, even some who
live there, call it "India-noplace" :-)))))  It's really quite a nice city.

Back in the mid-1940s when I was collecting maps of cities, some of the
puffery included with the Indy map claimed it was the largest state capital
located on a non-navigable river. Maybe true then, but not any more, I'm
sure Denver, Phoenix and perhaps Austin are now larger :-)))

French would stress the final syllable, wouldn't it?

stevo   </HTML>

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