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<DIV>Do any of the dictionaries on CD allow one to search by total syllables,
part of speech and stress marks? The results of such a search on the whole of
English would be interesting.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regarding the question about the stress of "detail", and other such
two-syllable words which are noun-verb pairs differing only in stress, my
instinct that all such verbs 'correctly' take the stress on the second
syllable, and also reduce the first vowel to something close to a schwa.
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