This document discusses rules for word stress in English pronunciation. It explains that one syllable in multisyllabic words is stressed more than the other syllables. There are four main rules: 1) stress the first syllable of most two-syllable nouns and adjectives, 2) stress the last syllable of most two-syllable verbs, 3) stress the second-to-last syllable of words ending in -ic, -sion, -tion, 4) stress the third-from-last syllable of words ending in -cy, -ty, -phy, -gy or -al. There are also rules for compound words, proper nouns, reflexive pronouns, and numbers. Exceptions are