All the homonyms with different pronunciations.
Read / Read
Lead / Lead
Compound / Compound
Bass / Bass
Content / Content
etc.
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It could be a brain fart, but 'compound'...?
At least in my dialect of English and some others I know, the noun and adjective have the stress on the first syllable while the verb has it on the second
Thank you. It was Greek to me, but since English is a French dialect sprinkled with Germanic Romantic Latin seasonings, and acrimonious acronyms and euphemisms, I got confused. Somehow.
Hey now, it's a German dialect with French Romantic seasonings! Much clearer, of course
The chemicals join together forming a new COMpound.
If you don't correct a problem early on then the damage will comPOUND over time.
For me when it's a noun (visited the compound/mixed the compound), its COM-pound, and when it's a verb (compound the problem), its com-POUND. I guess that's it?
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I think it's too much that you drive in the parkway but park in the driveway.
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