Stress

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Professor Ralph wrote
 >For the colloquial version, this is a very common word, and I cannot
 >recall ever hearing it stressed anywhere but on the last syllable
 >(experience mostly in Moscow oblast').

Neither can I. I mostly live in St Petersburg and occasionally
in Moscow, and have heard my female friends say p"n'LA loads of times
but never POn'l". But I haven't been to the South and therefore I know
I cannot say anything conclusively.
  To say the least, <<POnila, bes samnenija>> is too far stretched.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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