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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8561548" data-attributes="member: 6777737">It's not related to professions. It's just what happens when you add syllables. They sometimes need to shift where you'd otherwise be forced to mumble, and when you get to four syllables that happens a lot.Library --> Librarian. Emphasis changes from first syllable LAHY-brair-ee to the second syllable because LAHY-brair-ee-uhn either mumbles or sounds like two words.But there are still plenty of words that don't fit the pattern because their syllables stand out just fine:Fabricate --> Fabricator. Emphasis remains on the first syllable.Navigate --> Navigator. Remains first.Demonstrate --> Demonstrator. First.Comentate --> Commentator. First.Intercept --> Interceptor. First or third to third.Electric --> Electrician. Second to third.Politic --> Politician. First to third.Statistic --> Statistician. Second to third.The pattern you've really discovered is that the -ist suffix tends to change the emphasized syllable to second for four syllable words. The -cian suffix tends to move emphasis to the third. But the word isn't "artificist". It's "artificer". The -or and -er suffix don't do what -ist does.The weird pronunciation in the dictionary is probably because the word is basically archaic at this point. Indeed, <a href="https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/artificer" target="_blank">some dictionaries label it so</a>. Seriously, if you Google the word nearly all of your hits will be about TTRPG classes (and most of those 5e D&D). A very slim fraction will be about the (chiefly British) military appointment. The word basically isn't used.</blockquote>

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