Changing the stress in a word?

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zilvis89

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« on: March 16, 2013, 02:09:41 PM »
English is not my first language and i just noticed that i think i have been pronouncing a word in a different way in a song i wrote. So the word is "headliner" i rhymed it with "fighter". I wanted to ask , if it is weird/incorrect or it doesn't make sense to pronounce "headLINER" instead of "HEADliner" 
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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2013, 02:31:07 PM »
English is not my first language and i just noticed that i think i have been pronouncing a word in a different way in a song i wrote. So the word is "headliner" i rhymed it with "fighter". I wanted to ask , if it is weird/incorrect or it doesn't make sense to pronounce "headLINER" instead of "HEADliner" 
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It`s ok to stress `liner`in stead of `head`....liner and fighter are a match also..in my opinion.

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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2013, 02:40:36 PM »
Thanks , you just saved my song  :D

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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2013, 01:45:34 AM »
It`s ok to stress `liner`in stead of `head`....liner and fighter are a match also..in my opinion.
Yes, it's ok.... but it's better to stress 'head' in my opinion. I always think wrongly-stressed words stick out a bit in a song, but depending on the lyric and the context, you can sometimes get away with it.
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