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| Dec 7 at 16:17 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | An answer with research into actual usage. I'd have upvoted apart from 'so you can just pick whichever one you feel sounds best or that you think is better formed according to English analogy.' The different variants and definitions proposed show that this is far from standard English, and ill-defined vocabulary / protologisms is/are best avoided on ELU. | |
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| Feb 5, 2018 at 1:26 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | The OED even has cybernocracy dating from 1965 of all crazy things! “Etymology: < cybern- (in ᴄʏʙᴇʀɴᴇᴛɪᴄ adj.) + -ocracy comb. form.” | |
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| Feb 3, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | ruakh | For words ending in -y, -ic, -al, etc., it is completely normal for the same prefix to be stressed differently depending on the suffix. Consider bioweapon vs. biology vs. biological, television vs. telemetry vs. telegenic, polygon vs. polygamy vs. polypeptide, etc., etc., etc. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 8:40 | comment | added | herisson | @ruakh: While there are a number of words like those you list, I believe it is still a less common pattern than keeping the stress on the prefix in the same place. | |
| Feb 3, 2018 at 7:55 | comment | added | ruakh | +1, though I'm not sure I agree with your comments about stress placement; yes, cybercracy would be stressed on the er, but is that any stranger than how we pronounce hyperbole or superlative or internal? | |
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| Feb 3, 2018 at 6:36 | history | answered | herisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |