“As the night wore on, Daddy's normally accentless speech took on the mellow drawl of his Tidewater youth.”

“Petra Gelbart, a Czech-born Romani musicologist, says a common experience among job applicants is that those speaking accentless Czech and with unremarkable surnames easily get interviews.”

“Living in a garret in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, speaking almost accentless French, and working with a congenial and cultured group of scientists, she felt at home in a way she never had in England.”

“And he expounds the English accentual verse-system with clearness and vigor.”

“The main law for all accentual versification is this, that verse-accent must always coincide with word-accent.”

“The rhythmic system, deriving from poetry, was based on long short relationships rather than strong weak accentual metre.”