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 !decvax!brunix!jss