1.   Some English words are difficult for speakers of other languages.

2.   A lot of English words come from Latin.

3.   Many English words begin with c.

4.   Strictly speaking, it was invented by the Japanese manufacturers who put two simple English words together to name their product.

5.   Force is an ordinary English word, apparently chosen because it is comprehensible to lay people.

6.   The term blackmail seems to derive from an old English word mail, meaning tribute or rents paid in work, goods, crops or base metal.

7.   The above rules do not, of course, cover all English words.

8.   One problem that we must also leave until the next chapter is the fact that there are many cases of English words with alternative possible stress patterns.

9.   This will be called compound, and its main characteristic is that it can be analysed into two words, both of which can exist independently as English words.

10.   It would be wrong to imagine that the stress pattern is always fixed and unchanging in English words.