Mead has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that one should never underestimate what a small group of dedicated people can accomplish. | |
| 2. | Mead and Bateson chose the upland village of Bajoeng Gede for their research, because a lack of iodine in the villagers' diet made them slow of speech. | |
| 3. | Margaret Mead ascribes to the Balinese she studied an inability to follow complex directions. I ask, "What of her ability to express complex directions in Balinese?" |