Thank you Josef for this week’s quick fix: COMMENT.
Josef and his colleagues have been having long discussions about how to pronounce the word ‘comment’. They were comparing it to another, similar word, COMMAND, and couldn’t figure out why they don’t have the same word stress pattern.
I’m sorry to say, I don’t have an explanation for you!
COMMENT and COMMAND are two words that are exceptions to the rule I discuss in this video: “Word Stress in 2-syllable nouns and verbs”
COMMENT will always have its stress on the first syllable and COMMAND will always stress the second syllable.
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What about report (verb and noun) ?
Stress second syllable for both noun and verb.
Nope. No difference. Always stress first syllable.
Thank you for this clarification. Now I can finally go back to how I used
to pronounce ‘comment’ as a verb.