My morning name from a few weeks ago was the technical term oxytone. From NOAD2: adj. oxytone: (especially in ancient Greek) having an acute accent on the last syllable. with an etymology < Gk. ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, ‘sharp-sounding’. with the first of our ‘sharp’ elements in modern English: OXY, oxy– (from Greek) or oxi– (from Latin). As a prosodic … Continue reading sharp, sour