38 BROOMALL : 



vindicative, advertising, axinomancy, calcinatory, capillariness, exem- 

 plarily, exemplariness, recognizable, recognizably. 



On the first rather than the third syllable : — 

 Alcoran, amateur, artisan, calipash, calipee. Capuchin, caravan, clar- 

 inet, cochineal, aristocratism. 



On the second rather than the third syllable : — 



Chimpanzee, consignor, tramontane, whereinto, advertisement, apo- 

 phyllite, elegaic, elegiast, gerundival, Himalayan, alveoliform. 



On the third rather than the fourth syllable : — 

 Anamorphosis, apotheosis, apotheosize, Archimedean. 



On the fourth rather than the fifth syllable : — 

 Dolicocephalic, heliogravure. 



On the fifth rather than the sixth syllable : — 

 Subdolicocephalic. 



(4) In the following words, the shift of accent to the 

 first syllable has been so far accepted that the former accent 

 on the second syllable is referred to as " formerly," or " pro- 

 perly pronounced," the "properly" referring to the old 

 classic pronunciation : — 



Altern, bombast, reflex, triumph (v.), balcony, infamous, sinister, 

 vertigo, hydrangea. 



(5) In the following words the lexicographer has accepted 

 the shift of accent to the first syllable and utterly discarded 

 the old accent on the second syllable, although originally 

 correct and still heard among some speakers : — 



Blasphemous, conversant, mischievous, orator, contrarj'. 



The shift or accent illustrated by the foregoing specimens 

 is a general tendency subject to occasional interference by 

 tendencies in the development of language. 



The uneducated say defic'it instead of deficit, in analogy 

 with deficient. The educated often say pare'sis instead of 

 par'esis, in analogy with other medical terms ending in itis, 



