Is there a pronunciation difference between the noun "display" and the verb "display"? [closed]

I know that in English, the emphasis on one syllable or the other is based on whether the word is a noun or a verb. For example:

Contract CONtract- an agreement; conTRACT- to shrink or to agree on a project

Record RECKord- a list; reKORD- to write down

Subject SUBjekt- the theme; subJEKT- to force upon someone

My question is if this also applies to the noun display and the verb to display. My instinct would be to pronounce the first DISplay and the latter disPLAY, but I didn't find anything to confirm this.

Is this word always pronounced the same, and if so, is there a reason?

Solution 1:

The first thing to note is that American English and British English very often have different "rules" for this, as do other varieties of English.

The second thing to note is that the "rules" are inconsistent even within any particular version of English.

All I can say for sure is that in England we say disPLAY for both verb and noun. I believe the same is true in America.

My suggestion

Decide which version of English you wish to learn, then find a good online pronunciation dictionary. Most good ones have the speaker symbol so you can hear the word spoken,

For example wordreference even allows you to hear different pronunciations according to country.

Solution 2:

Note that much of any difference in pronunciation results from the different ways nouns are used vs verbs.

The noun "display" commonly comes at the end of a phrase or sentence, where there is a natural pause in speech. And even when the word is used as a part of a compound noun ("display adapter", "display cable", etc) the pronunciation tends to not be "rushed".

But the verb "display" is almost always used in a transitive context ("display the text"), and there's a natural tendency to merge the word with the following word. This has a subtle effect on how the word is pronounced.