On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:08:12 -0400, I wrote, asking,
>
> Do you really have *three* that are the old way? (Names/Dates?)
> I have not seen a survey of dictionaries, but the (few) ones that I
> have used in recent years have been consistent, the times I have
> noticed, in using a pre-syllable accent mark.
What I found on-line, starting from one-dictionary: 7 references that
seem to be non-duplicative:
in BOLD - 1.
-Wordsmyth English Dictionary
mark after the syllable - 2.
-Information Please
-dictionary.com
mark before the syllable - 4.
-Cambridge dictionaries online
-Merriam Websters WWW -
-Newbury House
-yourdictionary.com
The linguistics text, "Course in Phonetics" by Ladefoged, 1993, also
uses the mark before the syllable. This is a reference I happened to
be looking in, earlier this week.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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