"Word stress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... became exceptions. Here perhaps the short vowel arose from the hideous and wholly erroneous habit, happily never universal though still in some vogue, of reciting er['a]m, er['a]s, er['a]t. There are actually schoolbooks which treat the verse ictus, the beat of the chanter's foot, as a word stress and prescribe terra trib['u]s scopul['i]s. I can say of these books only Pereant ipsi, mutescant scriptores, and do not mind using a post-classical word in ...
— Society for Pure English Tract 4 - The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin • John Sargeaunt |
