From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jss
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: comparable pronounciation
Article-I.D.: brunix.1388
Posted: Sat Feb  5 10:30:33 1983
Received: Sun Feb  6 03:31:07 1983
References: csin.263

according to my old faithful M-W 2nd Ed. Unabridged (which lives about
3 feet from this terminal):
   kom' pa ra b'l  (where the first ' is a stress, and the second is
		    an elision); originally accented kom par' a ble.

so everyone is right, either now or historically
judith schrier
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