Hello! I'm John Russell.
Imagine you are visiting the United States.
Perhaps you see major cities like New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas.
Perhaps you see places like Mount Rainier, Mount Rushmore, Central Park.
In terms of pronunciation, there is something common to all of these places names.
No, I'm not talking about vowels and consonants.
I'm talking about word stress, saying a word louder or in a higher pitch.
In previous pronunciation videos, we explored word stress in terms of phrasal nouns, phrasal verbs, even abbreviations.
But there are certain ways that American pronounce place names, too.
In general, Americans place more stress on the last word of a place name.
