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It sounds strange when my colleagues refer to a class in Python having an a-TRIB-ute rather than an ATT-tri-bute. I'm familiar with the verb form stressing the
by pithon 5y ago
It sounds strange when my colleagues refer to a class in Python having an a-TRIB-ute rather than an ATT-tri-bute. I'm familiar with the verb form stressing the middle syllable and the noun form stressing the first.
- mikelward 5y agoYes. They're doing it wrong according to this rule.
- stevula 5y agoI hear this pronunciation every now and then from gamers too. I suspect this happens when people learn the word from reading instead of from listening to the speech of their peers. If it becomes common enough then it spreads via speech patterns too.
- montecarl 5y agoThe outro on MC Frontalot's Charisma Potion covers this! https://open.spotify.com/track/21HeW6fxCl02b3gcvf1TIC?si=9fbf82c95b8944a8 https://open.spotify.com/track/21HeW6fxCl02b3gcvf1TIC?si=9fb...
- tomerv 5y agoSpeaking of python, how do you pronounce "import"? I pronounce it as IM-port. According to the rule that makes it a noun, but shouldn't it be a verb? I wonder if I'm pronouncing it correctly.
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- barrucadu 5y agoBritish English speaker: import foo "im-PORT foo" "foo is an IM-port" "this code im-PORTs foo"
- dhosek 5y agoWhen you use it as a verb it should have the stress on the second syllable, /imˈpôrt/ as a verb, /ˈimˌpôrt/ as a noun. It's probably one of the more common mispronunciations. The number one mispronunciation, though, has to be “often” (look it up). With forte, meaning strength, as number two.
- Smithalicious 5y agoNon-native speaker here, but I pronounce both the verb and the noun as IM-port
- samatman 5y agoI (native English speaker) somehow learned the verb "attribute" first, and went on to play Dungeons and Dragons for years referring to aTTRIButes, which normalized it throughout the neighborhood. It took me rather a long time to shake it, in fact. These things happen!