This is one of the most useful things I've ever read. Thanks.Doc Manhattan":ue9a7hfm said:Unless there's an accent over the vowel in the syllable, textbook Italian puts stress on the next-to-last syllable. So would be Sair Ja-COH-po.
(In the Southern Italian dialects that influenced "American Italian," the stress is often so exaggerated that the last syllable gets cut off--hence all the people I grew up with who pronounced "ricotta" more like "re-GOAT.")
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