Neurophysins are portions of the precursor proteins for vasopressin and oxytocin, and are found specifically in structures that contain these peptides. In addition, we have quantitatively compared neurophysin neurons and fibers in the brains of individuals with no history of neurologic or psychiatric abnormality, and in brains of patients dying with psychotic illness categorized as schizophrenia.
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Data set: Elsevier. Publisher Elsevier Science. Fields of science No field of science has been suggested yet. You have to log in to notify your friend by e-mail Login or register account. Download to disc. High contrast On Off. Close window. One group of words with similar meanings in English odometer , thermometer take antepenultimate stress without controversy.
Similar-in-stress, too, are other measurement words: diameter and perimeter spring to mind. You can begin to see how, with all these words occupying the same semantic space, an argument-from-analogy forms.
The stress pattern of kuh-LOM-uh-tuh is hardly an aberration in English, either. Words where a weak initial syllable is followed by a ternary "foot" which is, incredibly, an academic term for a rhythmic unit are commonly found in English words, even those that have nothing to do with measurement: medicinal , pathology , apostrophe , America.
Early Hansard appearances crop up in the first decade after Federation, when GB Edwards, a Liberal proponent of decimal and metric conversion, urged parliament to avoid the "insular prejudice" of British coin makers and embrace the efficiencies of global trade in metric. While metric units had been used in Australia's scientific instruction, the word kilometre was truly thrust into prominence some 50 years later, when the country began to convert from pounds, feet and inches.
The push to adopt metric was dizzyingly successful, in no small part due to a sustained public relations campaign. Copies of one pamphlet, "Metric Conversion and You", were distributed to all of Australia's 4 million-plus letterboxes. The campaign picked a pronunciation, too: in television advertisements outlining proposed speed limit changes, the sonorous voice intoned KIL-uh-MEE-tuh.
The idea of Gough Whitlam as a progressive maverick can probably be traced back to his establishment of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, the introduction of no-fault divorce, or perhaps his involvement setting up, in Medibank, publicly funded universal healthcare. But Whitlam, perhaps taking after his highly irregular given name, was also at the vanguard of pronunciation, and championed the kuh-LOM-uh-tuh pronunciation for the unit of measurement.
Thus, Whitlam said, the metre in kilometre should be a neutral vowel — a schwa — leaving kuh-LOM-uh-tuh the only agreeable option. But the chairman of the Metric Conversion Board disagreed, and privately brought his concerns to Clyde Cameron, then minister for science and consumer affairs. Cameron — described at his death as "unrelenting in his enmities" — took the kilometre affair as an opportunity to publicly rebuke Whitlam for an earlier demotion.
What followed was by turns catty and bizarre: Cameron, recognising Whitlam's fervour for the classics stemmed from his instruction in Greek under Enoch Powell in the s, proceeded to telephone Enoch Powell to ask for confirmation of the proper pronunciation of kilometre. How about crooked? And there is also winged and legged. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Marked only has two syllables in poetic or archaic usage.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. FumbleFingers FumbleFingers k 45 45 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Aged doesn't, in my experience, change its pronunciation in US English. So in your experience, an aged parent and a middle-aged parent both have the word aged pronounced the same? Is that with one, or two syllables?
Yes, in my experience those are both pronounced the same, with single syllables. That said, the dictionary not surprisingly disagrees with me.
And that said, maybe the real issue is that I very rarely hear aged as a stand-alone adjective to describe a person. Americans tend to say old or elderly. Aged cheese , though, is just like middle-aged: eyjd. An "edge case" for me is "an aged map" , where I read it as one syllable in "To create the appearance of an aged map, do this". But in "He took out an aged map" I read it as two syllables.
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