The chief exceptions are _Ar'abic, arith'metic, ar'senic, cath'olic,
chol'eric, her'etic, lu'natic, pleth'oric, pol'itic, rhet'oric, tur'meric.
Climacteric_ is accented by some speakers on one syllable and by some on
the other; so are _splenetic_ and _schismatic_.
Most words ending in _eal_ accent the antepenult, but _ide'al_ and
_hymene'al_ are exceptions. Words in _ean_ and _eum_ are divided,
some one way and some the other.
Words of two syllable ending in _ose_ usually accent the last syllable,
as _verbose',_ but words of three or more syllables with this ending
accent the antepenult, with a secondary accent on the last syllable,
as _com'-a-tose_.
When it is desired to distinguish words differing but by a syllable,
the syllable in which the difference lies is given a special accent,
as in _bi'en'nial_ and _tri'en'nial, em'inent_ and _im'minent, op'pose'_
and _sup'pose',_ etc.
Sounds of Vowels in Different Positions.
Let us now consider the value of vowels.
We note first that position at the end of a word naturally makes every
vowel long except _y_; (e. g., _Levi, Jehu, potato_); but _a_ has the
Italian sound at the end of a word, or the sound usually given to _ah_.
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