Learn more in English Grammar. Trending Words beautiful happy education teacher school. Syllable Quiz Can you divide cheese into syllables? Take the Syllable Quiz. Syllables Synonyms Rhymes Synonyms for verdict 2 syllables. Prize awarded to a teacher each month. Fun Fact Flower has 2 syllables. Flour only has 1 syllable! Learn Why. Why Is Why is orange 2 syllables? Is it LieBOvitz? Or LIEbovitz? Does Britain have an equivalent to Okies? I sometimes hear people putting the emphasis on the second syllable in "pastoral" and "temporal".
It sounds very wrong to me - I British put it on the first syllable in both cases. I wonder what is going on when they do this? Any ideas? Is it a normal way to say these words anywhere? Evidently she also was a German linguist.
Larry's point was that in the US everyone pronounces it Burnsteen. Then, about a year ago I saw a clip of Edward R. Murrow pronouncing it the German way too. Clearly it's just as much a generational matter as a geographical one.
Problem is, sometimes I can log in and post as one or other of these IDs, and other times for-the-life-of-me cannot, so I give up and post as anon. I wonder if balconies were originally more of a Spanish architectural structure - or Italian, and the different emphasis a century ago might have been carried over from those languages? Jaxca - I'm married to an Okie or anyway, he's from Oklahoma and haven't noticed these pronunciations of insurance and umbrella.
I'll have to devise some kind of test and pay attention. And his pronunciation of oil rhymes with bowl, which cracks me up. The mention of "furor e " right at the top of this post was an eye-opener or ear-opener?
Now you're telling me that combination is actually very, very bizarre? I can't believe I never noticed that before And anne t. All the other main Western European languages seem to have "balcon" subject to spelling variations etc.
Nat, if you hit the link on furore , you'll be taken to a past post on the topic. He thought that saying these words with the accent on the first syllable would be pretty strange and doesn't recall anyone he knows saying them that way.
Where are you getting your info? He's from Eastern OK. No controversy at all! My Texan soon to be ex wife always says INsurance.
I have had the impression that although not universal it's not an uncommon pronunciation in the States, but that may just be because I have become used to hearing it from her. I haven't noticed the different accent of umbrella here, or insurance. I'll keep an ear out for these words now, though. I say pastoral with three syllables, but this proves nothing. Pastral, with two, sounds to me very clipped and British and, if pronounced this way by an American speaker, may even sound affected to me.
But this may be just reverse snobbery or something. I've been racking my brain to recall some words on which my mother has corrected my pronunciation - some of them four syllable and regarding the accent, I'm sure.
To no avail. One word in particular my parents thought it very funny where I put the accent. Hi Lynn Hmm, perhaos it's a Jo'burg thing. I found this blog while I was trying to figure out how to pronounce 'Leibovitz' and I wasn't planning on commenting until I saw the Okie comment. I'm born and raised Okie and I like the way we talk.
That is all :. Economy, astronomy, autonomy, lobotomy. Yup, good theory, thanks Kevin! Kevin, Ian there is something about the quality of the "o" vowel in 4-syllable words which strongly attracts the stress away from the "original" or "logical" stress position in such words as controversy and kilometre.
In these words at least there's a much older process at work. It's not a question of vowel quality, nor of syllable-count. There's a rule applied to words taken from Latin — largely because for many centuries most of the people who coined most of the words were fluent in Latin, including spoken Latin. The key factor is syllable weight. This Latin stress rule takes account of the penultimate syllable of a word. And it didn't stop at three syllables.
Although all these words have short-O as the stressed antepenultimate, the rule is far more general. I can't think of a short-U example. We even applied it when the first part of the compound wasn't of Greek or Latin origin. But then we had to absorb the measure-of-length terms from the Continent. Metre already existed as an English word describing poetic rhythm. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy. Syllables Synonyms Rhymes trial.
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