bother, honour, capture, cover also don't have a change of accentation from verb to noun. It happens to nouns that were derived from verbs that had a prefix. O.K. --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: linguistic question > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:48 AM > I thought this was a list of those words which did NOT do > the > syllable-pronunciation change thing. > > Julie Krueger > > > > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Paul Stone > <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Salvage > > > > > > service, control > > > > In which part of which country are ANY of these three > words pronounced > > with the stress on the other syllable? > > > > Does anyone actually say: > > > > salVAGE > > serVICE > > or > > CONtrol? > > > > p > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, > vacation on/off, > > digest on/off), visit > www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html