dsk wrote:
> catman wrote:
>
> > dsk wrote:
> >
> > > What happened to CONtroversy?
> > > That's the way I'd say that word.
> >
> > Huh? the con part can't be said any other way. Can it? the obnly two ways I know
>are
> > contra-versy or con-trov-ersy.
>
> Well, let me look at this again. Perhaps I not only talk funny, but I read funny
>too....
>
> The capital letters in your message [contraVERSY, conTROVersy] made it look like
>that's the part
> of the word that is stressed, and my point was only that I stress the first
>syllable. But everyone
> does? Even English people??? Phew, I'm so glad to find that out. :-)
>
Hi-the reason I capitalised was to try and explain the two different ways of saying
the word. Your
reading of it was correct and I used the wrong way to explain it but can't think of an
other!
Still, I guess it is not that important after all!
bw
colin
