Placement of stress at the beginning of two word phrases
Something I’ve been noticing and that has also been kind of bothering me is people’s, i think, increasing tendency to move stress to the beginning of certain words/phrases, but specifically two word phrases describing objects.
to me it seems like just an attempt to sound cool? idk if that’s the right way to put it
for example, these are two phrases that i have always heard with stress on the last syllable:
cream CHEESE
hash BROWNS
i think this is the obvious stress pattern because it’s a descriptive word followed by the noun it’s describing
and it honestly really irks me when people increasingly say them like
CREAM cheese
or
HASH browns
because it comes off like they’re trying to be nonchalant or something.
have any of y’all noticed this?
there are also some single words that this applies to, like crouTON, or, as some people would say, CROUton
This is my first post here, so i don’t now if this exactly fits the subreddit. what flair would this be?
edit: since so many people seem to be so incredulous at these pronounciations for things, i found a cool website that has a bunch of pronounciations on youtube to look at so you can believe me lol: https://youglish.com/pronounce/hash_browns/english/us
ive found my pronounciations for cream cheese, hash browns, and tofu on here, but not crouton for some reason (and if you want some more information on where they might come from, i assume i acquired english in florida)