eviDENTly, apparentLY

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> the penult stress version is restricted to one-word rejoinders.  I've also heard (and maybe used) "apparently" pronounced with *final* stress in the same ("So it seems") context: "apparent-LEE".  Weird.

Works for me. At lear, it does, if the situation is obvious. Like, you
know, in response to a rhetorical utterance, whether question or
statement.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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