Things I love about the English language and why so many fucking hate it.
It has alternating 'stress' patterns that indicate if a word is a noun or verb based on if the first or second syllable are stressed.
For example
Noun: REcord
Verb: reCORD
or
Noun: CONtract
Verb: conTRACT
It's a very subtle difference, and it's both beautiful and confusing as fuck to anyone who never learned it natively.
#TodayYouLearned
#TIL
#NowYouKnow
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