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Excerpt from The Ancient Use of the Greek Accents in Reading and Chanting: With Some Newly Restored Greek Melodies
The general rule of the Greek pronunciation rests upon the principle common to all languages, that a stress of voice is succeeded by an unaccented syllable. Thus in English, when we use monosyllables, we use alternate positions for the accents, as1n it came to pass. In long words such as in understanding, handkerchief, the same rule holds good, nor does the rule alter when we use foreign words, such as bibliography, permanganate of potash.
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