and before ρ final or ρ followed by a different consonant.

2. γ has the nasal sound, like _ng_ in _king_, before γ,
κ, χ, or ξ.

3. ι has its long sound, like _i_ in _machine_, at the end
of a syllable.

Every letter is sounded, and, with the above exceptions, invariably
the same.



2. ACCENT.


§ 3. Each word, except a very few monosyllables, has one of the
following accents written over a vowel in it, which marks the place of
the spoken tone. A few small words, called _enclitics_, generally
throw their accent, as an acute, on the last syllable of the preceding
word.

§ 4. The _acute_ ('), which is the foundation of all the
accents, stands on one of the last three syllables. In verbs, with the
exception of certain forms, it stands as far toward the beginning of
the word as the rules below allow. In other parts of speech it stands
on the same syllable as in the ground-form, (that given in the
lexicon,) except as required by these rules. When the last syllable
has a long vowel or diphthong it stands on the syllable before the
last.