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Old June 24, 2011, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Perikles View Post
A very bad example if that person speaks BrE
That's true. In fact many American English speakers say the noun and
verb the same way. I used to, but changed for the sake of clarity.

I know there are many other words whose meaning changes with stress
but at the moment I don't recall any. recall of course.
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