Timeline for How important really is stress in pronunciation?
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| Nov 16, 2016 at 19:19 | comment | added | marcus | Another possible reason is that words ending in D are rare, so apud (“ápud”) kind of looks like apud' (with vowel elision, making “apúd”)... | |
| Nov 15, 2016 at 10:51 | comment | added | La Vo-o | @2_K_ I think a leading "a-" is just too often unstressed in English. Think "anew", "aside", "ago", or compounds like "agnostic". To my best knowledge in other languages also "j'adore" or "arriba". | |
| Nov 15, 2016 at 10:36 | comment | added | 2_K_ | I mislearned apud too. Is this a real trend or just coincidence? | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 23:11 | history | answered | Tomaso Alexander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |