Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
Well, "encite" isn't a word. Insight and incite are both words. The former is from the Low German, and the latter from French.
The emphasis is on the first syllable in one and the second in the other, because they have utterly different meanings, and come from different roots.
Motorcycle and bicycle share a suffix, from the same origin.
The explanation presented was based on phonetics, not etymology or spelling (
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