Saying "rings" is no longer a mistake! And a couple more examples when the norm is changing before our eyes

What linguists say about the stress of verbs

A well-known linguist, creator of the famous grammatical dictionary Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak spoke to AA Zaliznyak: An episode from the history of Russian stress / Denis Kizhaev / YouTube about three types of stress of verbs in "-it".

In all forms on the root: "st'vit", "st'vlyu", "st'vit", "st'vit".
In the infinitive and in the form of the 1st person singular - at the end, in other forms - at the root: “ask”, “ask”, “ask”, “ask”.
Always at the end: "give birth", "give birth", "give birth", "give birth".

That is, there is no single rule that the stress in verbs is always placed on the ending. Or at the root. Or else it is somehow the same in all words and their forms.

How the type of stress changes

The language lives and changes according to its internal laws, which do not directly depend on the will of the speakers. Over time, some verbs move from one group to another - this is the development of our complex stress system.

Academician Zaliznyak drew A. A. Zaliznyak: Episode from the history of Russian stress / Denis Kizhaev / YouTube attention to the fact that at the beginning of the 16th century they said “learn”, “cook”, “catch”, “ruin “You”, “extinguish”, “treat”, “divide”. Now this pronunciation seems wild: the stress has moved from the ending to the root. At the same time, in the infinitives and forms of the 1st person singular, it remained on the endings: "teach, teach", "cook, cook", "catch, catch" and so on. That is, these verbs have moved from the category of words with the third type of stress to the category with the second.

Such a transition occurs gradually, lasts a long time and has not yet ended. The verbs listed above have already performed it, but there are others - which are still in the process.

What verbs are changing stress right now

Of course, this is “to call”. But he has brothers, for the correct pronunciation of which for some reason they rarely stand up, although they are spoken with errors even more often than the notorious "rings."

Dictionaries indicate what to pronounce 1. Drill (Xia) / IL Reznichenko. Orthoepic dictionary of the Russian language: Pronunciation. Stress

2. Include (Xia) / In the same place "you drill, drill" and "turn on, turn on". Although the “Big orthoepic dictionary of the Russian language. Literary pronunciation and stress of the beginning of the XXI century: the norm and its variants "(2018) indicates" include "as an acceptable option in casual speech.

What is the bottom line about "calling"

The modern norm is “you call, you call”. This is what it is recommended to say. However, in living speech, we increasingly hear the stress on the root.

Obviously, now we are at an intermediate stage, when the old and new options are competing with each other. Even the Orthoepic Dictionary of the Russian Language: Pronunciation. Accent (2003) already indicates Call / I. L. Reznichenko. Orthoepic dictionary of the Russian language: Pronunciation. Stress stress “ring” as acceptable in normal conversation.

The change in the type of stress cannot be instantaneous. And in the case of the above words, which have already changed the stress, and in the case of "turn on", "drill" and "ring", this is possible only gradually. In the borderline period, two options coexist in the speech of native speakers. Over time, the old one dies off, and the new one turns from a mistake into a norm.

If you look at the history of the Russian language and say “learn”, “cook” or “treat”, it becomes clear which option is the future. However, for some reason, a lot of attention is paid to the incorrect pronunciation of the verb “to call”, so, perhaps, more than one generation will roll their eyes when they hear “ringing”, because it is very easy to consider oneself literate and catch others illiterate.

True, often the same people who insist on the accent "call" say "turn on" and "sverlit". Probably, memorizing three verbs is too much.