There are many longer word suffixes where the last letter is –y in words with these suffixes the stress is placed on the second syllable from the end.
Public – publicity, national – nationality
Photograph – photography, climate – climatology
Most of academic subjects have one of the –y endings or –ics, e.g. physics, chemistry, biology.
Many English speakers
do not pronounce the second syllable in history [‘histri],
the word geography can be pronounced both [‘dƷogrǝfi] Ooo and [dƷi:’ogrǝfi]] oOoo
don’t pronounce the second syllable in mathematics, [mǝθ’mætics].
If we combine the various endings, we can get ‘families’ of words with moving stress pattern.
Photograph – photography – photographic
Economy – economics – economical
National – nationality
Natiolise – nationalization
Civil – civility
Civilize – civilization
Make a word ending with –ity from each of these words and give the stress pattern.
Author – authority oOoo
Person, universe, public, major, nation, real, human, electric
Write the words from the box in the correct column according to their stress pattern.
Economics
economy
physics
chemistry
mathematics
sociology
history
geology
photography
nation
nationality
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