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  1. 22-Feb-2010, 08:32 #1
    mmasny
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    Default show-off

    How do you accentuate the word?
  2. 22-Feb-2010, 17:07 #2
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    Default Re: show-off

    Quote Originally Posted by mmasny View Post
    How do you accentuate the word?
    The 'show' has the main stress. The 'off' is still stressed - it isn't unstressed - but less so than the 'show', if that makes sense. Like 'photograph' - the 'pho-' and the '-graph' are both stressed, the '-to-' is unstressed. This is for the noun.

    The verb 'to show off' the two words have equal stress, like most phrasal verbs.
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