Cherize
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I'm trying to formalize this. We pronounce biomass, biotech, and biohazard with the stress on "bi." However, with words like biology and biography, the stress is on the "o." What is the rule? Biohazard, which has four syllables, is closer to being a compound noun than biology, also with four syllables, but that's not the reliable rule I'm trying to deduce. Can anyone help?
Please excuse any mistake in punctuation or typography if italics are wrong in the words I cited and I should have used quotation marks, but a proliferation of those things abrades the eyeballs in my experience.
Edited to add: cf. the pronunciation of myopic. Why wouldn't biopic rhyme with it instead of being pronounced BYE-oh-pic, which I believe is right?
Please excuse any mistake in punctuation or typography if italics are wrong in the words I cited and I should have used quotation marks, but a proliferation of those things abrades the eyeballs in my experience.
Edited to add: cf. the pronunciation of myopic. Why wouldn't biopic rhyme with it instead of being pronounced BYE-oh-pic, which I believe is right?
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