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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: "Negotiation" and "harassment"
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 03:34:27 GMT
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shhouche@aud.alcatel.com (Stephen H. Houchen) writes:

>A similar
>change seems to have occurred in the word "harassment" /h@r 'as m@nt/ -->
>/'her @s m@nt/.  WHAT IS GOING ON??!!!  Am I going crazy?

I have heard "harass" stressed on the first syllable from time to time
thruout my life.  So also in Belloc:

    The people in between
    Looked underdone and harassed
    And out of place and mean
    And terribly embarrassed.

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        Joe Fineman             jcf@world.std.com
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