A Grammar of the English Tongue - ESL Teachers Board

A Grammar of the English Tongue 609. Trissyllables ending in ous, as grácious, árduous; in al, as cápital; in ion,as méntion; accent the first.10. Trissyllables ending in ce, ent, and ate, accent the first syllable, ascóuntenance, cóntinence, ármament, ímminent, élegant, própagate, exceptthey be derived from words having the accent on the last, as connívance,acquáintance; or the middle syllable hath a vowel before two consonants, aspromúlgate.11. Trissyllables ending in y, as éntity, spécify, líberty, víctory, súbsidy,commonly accent the first syllable.12. Trissyllables in re or le accent the first syllable, as légible, théatre,except discíple, and some words which have a position, as exámple, epístle.13. Trissyllables in ude commonly accent the first syllable, as plénitude.14. Trissyllables ending in ator or atour, as creátour; or having in themiddle syllable a diphthong, as endeávour; or a vowel before twoconsonants, as doméstick; accent the middle syllable.15. Trissyllables that have their accent on the last syllable are commonlyFrench, as acquiésce, repartée, magazíne, or words formed by prefixing oneor two syllables to an acute syllable, as immatúre, overchárge.16. Polysyllables, or words of more than three syllables, follow the accentof the words from which they are derived, as árrogating, cóntinency,incóntinently, comméndable, commúnicableness. We should therefore saydispútable, indispútable; rather than dísputable, indísputable; andadvertísement, rather than advértisement.17. Words in ion have the accent upon the antepenult, as salvátion,perturbátion, concóction; words in atour or ator on the penult, as dedicátor.18. Words ending in le commonly have the accent on the first syllable, asámicable, unless the second syllable have a vowel before two consonants,