@gailcalled What do you call it when people in the Midwest shift the stress to the first syllable when it should be on the second? In-surance, e-quator, and so forth?
@Nullo; Dactyl. it’s a common metrical form; you find the examples you cite weird because they change the expected meter. To me it has a country bumpkin sound to it. Randy Quaid often plays parts where he talks like that.
“Jacqueline Kennedy” is a double dactyl.
@johnpowell: Your link forced me to (Mac 10.8.1, Safari) force-quit.
@gailcalled :: Same set-up here and it works for me. You could have a slow connection. It will just display a white screen while it downloads the entire mp3. Maybe that gave the illusion that your browser wasn’t doing anything.
@johnpowell-I do have, under the best of circumstances, a slow connection (medium DSL) and a cheap, corner-cutting, understaffed, monopolistic server. We all hate them.—
You might be right but I am not going to try again.