Almost all our English writers on this subject, possessed with this inchangeability of accent and quantity, tell us, that all accented syllables are long, making at the same time no distinction between the grave and acute accent.

Spluttersmash and splatterdash! In the shallow pools they splash, Like two wrestlers closing! Long they fight and twist and turn, But the race is over

an avellane cross

I fancy an Indian takeaway tonight.