Fallacy of accent
Linguistic ambiguity caused by unusual stress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fallacy of accent (also known as accentus, from its Latin denomination, and misleading accent[1]) is a verbal fallacy that reasons from two different vocal readings of the same written words. In English, the fallacy typically relies on prosodic stress, the emphasis given to a word within a phrase, or a phrase within a sentence.[1][2][3] The fallacy has also been extended to grammatical ambiguity caused by missing punctuation.[4]