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But bearing in mind that limited number of readers interested in Baltic, I’ll toss in a couple of English words as lagniappe. The OED entry forwoadwas updated in December 2016, and the etymology is thorough and interesting, ending in a bio-technological excursus which would never have made ...
In general, stress falls on the last syllable in French and the first syllable in German. However, French is a syllable-timed language so the rhythm is measured in syllables of equal weight; whereas German and English are stress-timed languages, so stressed syllables occur at a regular rate,...