CONtract/conTRACT

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:51 PM -0500 10/31/01, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>Many of us Southerners eschew fancy-pants Romance stress rules and go
>for a root (or even misunderstood as root) earlier syllable. I bet
>them good ol- CON-tract speakers are also
>
>CE-ment
>ICE-cream
>UM-brella
>and even
>TEN-nessee
>
>speakers.
>
Isn't everyone (at least in this country) an ICE-cream speaker?  To
join CE-ment and UM-brella, you could trade in your ICE-cream for
PO-lice.

larry