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The British Pronunciation of Comompest
Hank is looking for his next big idea, and i think that it could be purchasing and labelling obscure. Hank put the stress on the second syllable of to compost. In english, there are a number of words that are both nouns and verbs. When these words are multisyllabic, often, but not always, because god knows, nothing is always in english, the noun has thestress on the first and the verb has the stress onthe second syllable. Lorain was like many native English speakers who internalized this rule without knowing it. So when he encountered the verb to compost, he automatically applied the rule. My mind is blown, isn't that
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