109 booth rhymes with smooth (Amer. with tooth). bouquet first syllable as book, not as beau. Bourbon (dynasty): 1st syllable as that of bourgeois; (US whisky) 1st syllable as bur. breeches rhymes with pitches. brochure stress on 1st syllable. brusque should be Anglicized: broosk or brusk. bureau stress on 1st syllable. burgh (in Scotland): sounds like borough. Byzantine stress on 2nd syllable. cadaver 2nd syllable as in waver. cadaverous 2nd syllable like 1st of average. cadre rhymes with harder. caliph rhymes with bailiff. camellia rhymes with Amelia. canine Ь 1st syllable may be as can or cane (the latter probably prevails). canton (subdivision): 2nd syllable as 1st of tonic; (military, also in cantonment) 2nd syllable as that of cartoon. capitalist stress on 1st syllable. carillon rhymes with trillion (Amer. carry-lon). caryatid stress on 2nd a. catacomb 3rd syllable, in the older pronunciation, as comb; now frequently rhyming with tomb. centenary sen-tee-nary (Amer. sen-te-nary). cento c as in cent, not cello. centrifugal, centripetal stress originally on 2nd syllable; but pronunciation with stress on 3rd syllable seems to be usual among younger speakers. certification stress on 1st and 4th syllables, not 2nd and 4th. cervical Ь stress either on 1st syllable (with last two syllables as in vertical) or on 2nd (rhyming with cycle): both pronunciations 109
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