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29/09/2005 12:54:21
 
 
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Stress
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The subject today is Stress on syllables and the differences each side of the pond
WORD        US           UK (and the civilised world)
__________  ___________  ____________________________
Metalurgy   Metal-URGY   Me-TAL-(uh)gy
Laborotory  LAB-'ro-TORY Lab-OR-at'ry
Inventory   IN-ven-TORY  IN-vent'ry
I've heard lots of others but last week I wasn't sure my ears weren't deceiving me when, in CSI Miami, I swear the pathologist called her profession "patho-LOGY" (We'd say "Path-OL-ogy"). I guess this matches with metalurgy, but it sounded so weird, like by someone whose first language isn't English, like, say, an Indian pronunciation (I used to have a Indian maths teacher who said: "Al-GEB-ra", "Arit'-METIC" and "Geo-METRY")

If that's the case then "apology" should be "A-pol-OGIE" ?
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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