necessary, monastery,
territory,
w hich are derived from Latin through old French, the
prim ary stress in old French was usually on what is now the syl
lable before the last. In M iddle English the accent shifted to the
fourth syllable from the last in accord with the native English ten
dency to accent words near the beginning. B ut owing to the prin
ciple of alternating rhythm in words, consisting o f three or m ore
syllables by the different degrees o f stress, a distinct secondary
stress rem ained where the main accent had been. Thus M iddle
English
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