• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Peter Flynn <peter@s...>
• Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:31:47 -0400 (EDT)

Peter Flynn scripsit:

> That's probably the influence of British Southern Recessive.

The default stress rule for English is "Stress unknown words on the
next-to-last syllable."  This rule has of course a great many
exceptions, including the whole of the native Germanic vocabulary!

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@c...
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter

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