Meanings of penultimate syllable in English

He pronounced her name Schenectady, with a strong accent on the penultimate syllable.

We observe here the rare rhythm, analogous to the iambic scazon, of a trochaic tetrameter with a long penultimate syllable.

As usual, Dean talked a mile a minute, in rapid, rippling, pyrrhic lines whose only stress fell on the last or penultimate syllable.

In the narrow sense, it is understood as that concordance which in the last and in the penultimate syllable it is usual to make.

In contrast, utterance-final position affected only vowel duration, lengthening both final-syllable unstressed vowels and stressed vowels in penultimate syllables.