Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.

lacked it — instead various vowel assimilations between the first and second syllables of words occurred in Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japonic.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

' The passage is miserably corrupt: but it may not be accidental that the first three syllables make Abraxas.

In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.

The first, known as Meyer's Bridge, is in the second foot: if the second foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables must be part of the same word-unit.

The first three feet of this line scan spondee-dactyl-spondee, but the fourth foot of-πας ἔπος has three consecutive short syllables.

In the following example of Ennius's early Latin hexameter composition, metrical weight (" ictus ") falls on the first and last syllables of certabant ; the ictus is therefore opposed to the natural stress on the second syllable when the word is pronouned.

Adelaide Crapsey codified the couplet form into a two line rhymed verse of ten syllables per line with her image couplet poem On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees, first published in 1915.

The nonsense syllable PED ( which is the first three letters of the word ‘ pedal ’) turns out to be less nonsensical than a syllable such as KOJ ; the syllables are said to differ in association value.

The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.

The most usual stress schemes for the Italian hendecasyllable are stresses on sixth and tenth syllables ( for example, " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ," Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy ), and on the fourth, seventh and tenth syllables (" Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti ," Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri ).

The first foot has a freer structure, allowing strong syllables in a falling position and weak syllables in a rising position:

* In the first foot, the length of syllables is free.

It is also possible for the first foot to contain three or even four syllables.

) The first three half-lines have the type A pattern " DUM-da -( da -) DUM-da ", while the last one has the type C pattern " da -( da-da -) DUM-DUM-da ", with parentheses indicating optional unstressed syllables that have been inserted.

From the initial syllables of the first verses of the resultant setting he then took the names of the first notes of the musical scale.

It is constructed from feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a variable number of unstressed syllables.

Traditionally, English poets employ iambic pentameter when writing sonnets, but not all English sonnets have the same metrical structure: the first sonnet in Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella, for example, has 12 syllables: it is iambic hexameters, albeit with a turned first foot in several lines.

In the original form composed by Daniel, each line is of ten syllables, except the first of each stanza which are of seven.

Up until the mid-twentieth century, the use of the word Adoshem, combining the first two syllables of " Adonai " with the last syllable of " Hashem "', was quite common.

After the firm's first plan was discarded due to a need for more office space, Cobb developed a new plan around a towering parallelogram, slanted away from the Trinity Church and accented by a wedge cut into each narrow side.

After the firm's flotation in 1961, the landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel opened in Hong Kong in 1963 as the city's first five star hotel.

The erection of the engine and its shakedown was supervised by Watt, at first, and then by men in the firm's employ.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

Sugar beet seed from France was listed in the annual catalogues of Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders from that firm's inception in 1898 until the first of their own varieties was introduced in 1909.

Cadillac is the first American car to win the prestigious Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club of England, having successfully demonstrated the interchangeability of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908 ; this spawned the firm's slogan " Standard of the World.

Under Cunard's new chairman, John Burns ( 1839 – 1900 ), son of one of the firm's original founders, Cunard commissioned four steel-hulled express liners beginning with Servia of 1881, the first passenger liner with electric lighting throughout.

Babycham, the first mass-produced branded perry, was developed by Showering from application of the Long Ashton Institute's research, and was formerly produced from authentic perry pears, though is today produced from concentrate, the firm's pear orchards having now been dug up.

His firm's first railway work was to build two stations in Curzon Street, Birmingham.

The first known radial-configuration engine to ever use a twin-row design was the 160 hp Gnôme " Double Lambda " rotary engine of 1912, designed as a 14-cylinder twin-row version of the firm's 80 hp Lambda single-row seven-cylinder rotary, with only the German Oberursel U. III clone of the Double Lambda reproducing the Gnome Double Lambda's twin-row design before the end of World War I.

Delius's first job was as the firm's representative in Stroud in Gloucestershire, where he did moderately well.

The firm's first vehicle was a tipping trailer made from war-surplus materials, which J. C. Bamford built in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter.

One of the American firm's best early results came in the Isle of Man TT in 1911, when Indian riders Oliver Cyril Godfrey, Franklin and Moorehouse finished first, second and third.

Tobin is also a Senior Business Advisor with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto and is a member of the firm's Public Policy Group. Through his involvement in policy decisions first entered as ideals at the Fraser Institute, Tobin has influenced the sale of energy interests in Alberta including the sale of two billion dollars worth of Alberta oil and gas interests to Abu Dhaby a Middle Eastern company through their Houston affiliate as shown on the Fraser Milner Casgrain website.

His firm's first military production design in 1916-17 was the armored-fuselage two seat all metal sesquiplane, the Junkers J. I, considered the best German ground attack aircraft of the war.

The first Madison Woolen Mill was constructed in 1881 near the bridge between Madison and Anson, with the firm's second mill built nearby in 1887.

The facility was designed by Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, the firm's first American project.

Aftermarket suppliers included the " Mooneyes " brand ( named after the firm's founder Dean Moon ) hubcaps and wheel covers that were some of the first independently offered for hot rods and custom cars.

Charles then assisted Patrick on the firm's first venture into Wales, a massive commission to construct docks and a railway at Port Talbot, followed by an equally ambitious scheme to expand the port of Seaham, officially opened in 1905.

Elizabeth Head, the firm's first female attorney, was hired.

The firm's first two advisory clients were Mohawk Airlines and Texas International Airlines in 1971.

The firm's first international office was established in Paris in 1963.

The concept of absorptive capacity was first defined as a firm's " ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends " by Cohen and Levinthal.

Prestatyn was the home of the first ever UK Kwik Save supermarket in 1965, Prestatyn was also the home of the firm's business headquarters.

These last two, first published in the 1960s, represented the firm's growing commitment to modern drama.