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Most dissyllabic nouns, having a diplhong in the latter syllable, have the accent also on that syllable: as, A Hamlet that draws? There are not many who own give even an outline of the character.

In a few words ending in ain the accent is placed on the former syllable: as, "Víllain," which is pronounced as the natives of Whitechapel pronounce "willing."

Those dissyllables, the vowels of which are separated in pronunciation, always have the accent on the first syllable: as, lion, scion, &c.

Trisyllables, formed by adding a termination or prefixing a syllable, retain the accent of the radical word: as, "Lóveliness, shéepishness, knávery, assúrance."

The first syllable of trisyllables ending in ons, al, ion, is accented in the generality of cases: as in the words "sérious, cápital," &c.