multisyllabic

• “Now, Krikorian is right that final stress is rare in multisyllabic English words.”

  What an unnatural stress pattern you have, Ms. Sotomayor! « Motivated Grammar

• “They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Exploding geysers, erupting volcanoes and steaming rivers give this North Atlantic country a "Lord of the Rings" quality that appeals to kids though they may find it a challenge to sound out the multisyllabic names—Eyjafjallajökull?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Adventures, With Children

• “He splashed his steaming cup of multisyllabic coffee into the big asshole's face.”

  Fictionaut: Morning Joe

• “No birth certificate for Palin to question, no cue cards to help her with the spelling and/or pronunciation of multisyllabic country names like...”

  The Huffington Post: Morris W. O'Kelly: God Bless Sarah Palin, God Bless America

• “Is a violence-packed action sequence best served by lyrical, multisyllabic flowery prose?”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Improve Your Authorial Voice Not By Writing, But By Watching

• “But even Claire is surprised when Carl takes the microphone and throws out "complicated multisyllabic lines with apparent ease," telling "a witty, articulate tale about the various obstacles in the spiritual and material progress of a young black man.”

  The Huffington Post: Is Rap Poetry?

• “In fact, according to a study of the subset of English in the Hoosier Mental Lexicon (Clopper 2002), 11% of the multisyllabic words had their primary stress on the final syllable.”

  What an unnatural stress pattern you have, Ms. Sotomayor! « Motivated Grammar

• “What Krikorian is complaining about is having to use a stress pattern that occurs in a full 10% of multisyllabic English words.”

  What an unnatural stress pattern you have, Ms. Sotomayor! « Motivated Grammar

• “Long gone are the days when the preponderance of analysts would take hours to parse the multisyllabic circumlocutions of Chairman Alan Greenspan.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Farr: Apple + Fed = Gains!

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