stress in bi-syllabic words

Hi

That's interesting. It's pretty difficult to think of exceptions

One kind of example, I think, is where the word has been made from two shorter words...

- legroom

Dave

primate - both vowels are long but only one, the first, has the accent - in English the first syllable is favored in accenting.

highway - both are long but only the first is accented.

spillway - the first syllable is accented although it has the short vowel.

hallway - first syllable accented although short.

Anonymoushallway - first syllable accented although short.

The first vowel is long in British English.

Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday - short first syllable accented.

twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, eighty - short first syllable accented.

pigsty

deadeye

cockeyed

walleyed

Hi

Words that come to mind, but not made of two other words are...

- pasty... (the noun, a pie not cooked in a dish)

- collie... (a kind of sheepdog)

And shortened Greek forms...

- You're so retro

- That's a hippo

Dave

thank u dear Dave

Anonymousit is said that in the case of bi-syllabic words stress is put on the long vowel.

Do you mean in cases where the word contains exactly one long vowel?
Not all of them have a long vowel; some of them have two long vowels.

I don't see the point of learning this principle. It is very far from covering all the possible ways a bi-syllabic wo

thank u so much