has many exceptions. Though verbs seldom have their accent on
the former, yet nouns often have it on the latter syllable; as delight,
perfume.

4. All dissyllables ending in y, as cranny; in our, as labour, favour; in
ow, as willow, wallow, except allow; in le, as battle, bible; in ish, as
banish; in ck, as cambrick, cassock; in ter, as to batter; in age, as
courage, in en, as fasten; in et, as quiet; accent the former syllable.

5. Dissyllable nouns in er, as canker, butter, have the accent on the
former syllable.

6. Dissyllable verbs terminating in a consonant and e final, as comprise,
escape; or having a diphthong in the last syllable, as appease, reveal; or
ending in two consonants, as attend; have the accent on the latter
syllable.

7. Dissyllable nouns having a diphthong in the latter syllable, have
commonly their accent on the latter syllable, as applause; except words in
ain, certain, mountain.

8. Trissyllables formed by adding a termination, or prefixing a syllable,
retain the accent of the radical word; as, loveliness, tenderness,
contemner, wagonner, physical, bespatter, commenting, commending,
assurance.

9. Trissyllables ending in ous, as gracious, arduous; in al, as capital; in
ion, as mention; accent the first.

10. Trissyllables ending in ce, ent, and ate, accent the first syllable, as
countenance, continence, armament, imminent, elegant, propagate, except
they be derived from words having the accent on the last, as connivance,
acquaintance; or the middle syllable hath a vowel before two consonants, as
promulgate.

11. Trissyllables ending in y, as entity, specify, liberty, victory,
subsidy, commonly accent the first syllable.

12. Trissyllables in re or le accent the first syllable, as legible,
theatre, except disciple, and some words which have a position, as example,
epistle.

13. Trissyllables in ude commonly accent the first syllable, as plenitude.

14. Trissyllables ending in ator or atour, as creatour; or having in the
middle syllable a diphthong, as endeavour; or a vowel before two
consonants, as domestick; accent the middle syllable.

15. Trissyllables that have their accent on the last syllable are commonly
French, as acquiesce, repartee, magazine, or words formed by prefixing one
or two syllables to an acute syllable, as immature, overcharge.

16. Polysyllables, or words of more than three syllables, follow the accent
of the words from which they are derived, as arro