[quote=@Burthstone] [@Caits] I know the difference between stressed and unstressed, but, I just can't get to a point where I can hear it when I say it or think it x.x I just wish there was a place where you could look up words and it'd tell you their stresses... Or maybe add that to wikipedia articles? But, Hyperbole, Candid, hunter, woodsman, scissors, that kind of thing, are what's causing trouble. And one syllable words. [/quote] Hun-unstressed-ter stressed, can-unstressed, did-stressed woods-unstressed man stressed, scis-unstressed-sors-stressed Do you see a pattern here? It's essentially what makes he word. Like you can have hunt, but when you add Er, it changes it. And a little trick that's obvious once you know...unstressed is always first, stressed follows it