On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:18:14 -0000, caeruleancentaur
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caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> I remember a few years back one of the car manufacturers built a car
> they called the "Volaré," but the word was pronounced on the
> penultimate. I could not fathom why the word needed an acute accent!
Decoration, of course. :)
A while back, I was bothered because the last name of the composer Leoš
Janáček is always pronounced in the USA with its first syllable stressed.
I thought the a-acute was a stress accent, but apparently that's not the
case; is it a "duration" accent?
Summary, with his name rendered correctly:
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http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=janacek>
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