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On 4 Mar 2026 02:56:40 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> I suppose the real question is how it became pah ram iter. 
> 
> At least according to the all-knowing net it isn't one of those UK vs
> US shifts of the emphasized syllable.

Yeah, that's an interesting question. I'm no professional linguist, but
it seems to me that there's a pattern for words with a rising tone in
the first syllable to have the stress on the second (e.g. as-SUME) and I
i-MAG-ine it has something to do with that; then again, the pattern is
already broken in my first sentence. Would love to know if there's a
formal description of this...