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To me, those are the verb and the noun respectively. "He will finance the project." "The project got its finance." With silicon, I think I stress the first s
by tuatoru 3y ago
To me, those are the verb and the noun respectively.
"He will finance the project." "The project got its finance."
With silicon, I think I stress the first syllable, if any.
- kazinator 3y agoWhether it's c'n or cahn, the first syllable gets the stress; that is not the issue. I would say that the project got its financing, or maybe that it became financed. Finance as a noun is the whole field of handling money (Bob works in finance). I pronounce it all starting with "fine".
- frogulis 3y agoHuh interesting, I definitely make that distinction for "refuse" but not "finance". That's from an Australian English speaker though.
- matt_kantor 3y agoIt's the same for me (a US English speaker raised on the east coast who lived on the west coast for a decade). I also wouldn't pronounce "financing" as "financeing", and I don't recall ever hearing a fellow American pronounce it that way, even if they might say "finance".