Remember when harassment used to be pronounced that way by the media and not "harris-ment"?
>> Remember when harassment used to be pronounced that way by the media and not "harris-ment"? <<
It's downright bizarre that the media says, "harris." In American English, when there's an ambiguous accentuation, the noun emphasizes the 2nd syllable while the verb accents the first. If a noun is formed by adding a suffix to such a 2-syllable verb, the middle syllable is usually accented.
Hence, when you reCORD a RECord, you make a reCORDing. PROnoun, proNOUNCE, proNUNciate. Reader's DIgest, diGEST food, diGESTion. OFFence, ofFEND, ofFENSive, et cetera