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This monograph is about English words with stress doublets, i.e., words in which stress is interchangeably placed upon more than one syllable without changing the meaning. For example, in the YouTube video whose unique identifier is ‑AnsohxXnQU (17.09.2016; to retrieve the video the identifier should be preceded by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=), an American English speaker can be heard stressing applicable initially in This name change will be more functionally ˈapplicable (00:01:25.899 --> 00:01:33.979), but in we’ve made the name change to make it more applicable (00:03:01.980 --> 00:03:04.880), the very same American English speaker can be heard using the stress pattern apˈplicable. (According to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (henceforth LDOCE), the variation /əˈplɪkəbəl/ vs. /ˈæplɪkəbəl/ occurs in both British and American English, but observe that in YouTube videos featuring the voices of British English speakers, the author heard only the stress pattern /əˈplɪ-/.) A very similar case is adult, which in British and American English is interchangeably stressed /ˈædʌlt/ and /əˈdʌlt/ (LDOCE) (with, however, initial stress being the preferred stress pattern in British and Australian English vs. final stress being more frequently used (than initial stress) in American English); a YouTube video in which a British English speaker can be heard vacillating between /ˈædʌlt/ and /əˈdʌlt/ is S5hXrgfwK8o (10.04.2017).