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Have a coffee 
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OK!  
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I'd suggest that the primary stress is on the first syllable, and a secondary on the third, at least in my own US-midwestern dialect. O'course, the prosodic and syntactic environment of the sentence in which it's said has some impact on where the stresses fall.
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...is the preferred position for the stress on longer words, except when it isn't, of course.Now'e're tawkin' *my 'language'. 
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I hate these s/z words! I learned many as a young child-- reading books sent to me from Ireland-- and learned the UK spelling-- which most US word processors reject-- and then there is raze (rase)-- the opposite in some ways of raise-- (to tear down-- to raze a building-) While i would most often "erect" or build a building-- in NY you "raise steel" and a building rises up-- (skyscapers are raised-- small house are not)
(and to make matters worse-- my favorite everyday dictionary-- (not my work one, which is M-W 10th) is Chambers.-- ex got the OED in divorce)
the different spellings are shade of grey!
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I'd say AD-vert-tise-ment. If I said it at all.
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Helen, Never mind Sparteye's coffee. I want some of whatever it is you're ingesting
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but I wouldn't say "advertisement" at all. I would say "ad" And herein lies the solution, and my excuse! "Advertisement" is so often shortenend to "ad" that I haven't had occasion to hear it - either pronunciation - spoken enough to have a sense of which is used more. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it! ) (But adVERTisment still sounds better to me )
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