alex (02/05/83)
I usually pronounce it with stress on the first syllable when I mean comensurate, and with stress on the second when I mean 'able to be compared'. Alexis Layton decvax!cca!alex
jss (02/05/83)
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
jpk (02/07/83)
Instead of pronOUnciation, I think you want to say pronUnciation.