I heard the "control" word (and other similar words) stress depends on whether it is a noun or a verb. But I can't find any proof to that. Is it really so?
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2I (native English speaker) pronounce them identically.– user24964Commented Apr 12, 2013 at 11:16
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1I (non-native speaker) have never heard anyone pronouncing it CONtrol– mplungjanCommented Apr 12, 2013 at 12:00
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1COntrol is the most popular pronunciation used for the computer key among Russian speakers. Interestingly enough the same word adopted in Russian for any other context is pronounced contrOl'.– shuribotCommented Sep 24, 2015 at 10:15
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@shuribot So true! (I am this Russian speaker :)– Alex FainshteinCommented May 15, 2018 at 23:00
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Examples of what you are talking about are: import, export, present, contract, object, refund, increase, decrease. All of them are nouns when the first syllable is stressed and verbs when the stress is on the second syllable. "Control" has only one stress as far as I know.
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+1. There may be others like control that have the same stress as verb and noun, but I can't think of any. Commented Apr 12, 2013 at 11:33
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1deLIGHT, HUSband, ISsue, rePLY in my vocabulary - and examples of verb/noun there? Commented Apr 12, 2013 at 11:58