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[Douglas G. Wilson]

Seems odd, now that I think of it, that I've been hearing and saying
"eviDENTly" routinely for these several decades, but not "eviDENT". Like
LH, I can do "EVidently" too.

Maybe the stress doesn't like to be too far from the end of the word
sometimes ("hosPITably", "forMIDably", "exQUISitely" [these I don't know
that I use], "deSPICably" [this I do]). I'm sure this is authoriTATively
explained somewhere?

Is the "eviDENTly" pronunciation used all over the Anglosphere or is it
regional? I don't see it in DARE. I see it in MW3.

-- Doug Wilson

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