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hugh3 on June 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: TEDTalks as of 06.16.11

That'd be ret-ARD, rather than RE-tard.

Or do Americans put the stress on the first syllable even in the verb? Stressing first syllables is a pretty common feature of American English.

carussell on June 19, 2011 [–]

re-TARD, actually.

And it gets stress on the the first syllable where it's used as a noun, second syllable as a verb. cf "address", "attribute". (I do realize the noun–verb distinction doesn't come play in the UK for the former.)

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