Postby janMato » Sun Jan 02, 2011 11:00 pm
Icelandic and other Scandinavian languages put accent on the first syllable and is part of the cause of the Minnesotan/Lake Woebegone accent. French puts accents later (2nd to last? I forget). English is a French Germanic hybrid, so the accent varies based on a word's parentage. If I remember all this correctly.
I just ran wikipedia through my machine and got Wikipesi using the default options.