Predilection has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
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1. | I have a predilection for beef. | |
2. | Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. | |
3. | The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community? |