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If you want to say that a word has a circumflex on its penultimate syllable,...
Author:
Bill Bryson
Book:
The Mother Tongue: English and
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Published at:
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If you want to say that a word has a circumflex on its penultimate syllable, without saying flat out that it has a circumflex there, there is a word for it: properispomenon.
( Bill Bryson )
[ The Mother Tongue: English and ]
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