taking poll on pronunciation

Ralph Cleminson Ralph.Cleminson at PORT.AC.UK
Fri Jul 2 18:29:42 UTC 2010


>Once again, a.mýg.da.la (antepenultimate stress from Greek) is not 

Antepenultimate stress from Latin (where it is regular when the last two
syllables are short), which was the intermediary for many Greek
loan-words in English.  Greek ἀμυγδαλῆ has final stress.

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