[Ads-l] Dim sum stress
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 30 20:57:09 UTC 2014
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
> Is second-syllable stress a common way to pronounce this term?
>
It's the stress-pattern that *I* use. But, naturally, that doesn't mean
that it's, therefore, "common."
Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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