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I was talking about verbs that end in -ить. The consonant-stem verbs like вести, жить do have final stress in the plural, which is not uncommon.

Thanks, I didn't know that stress was still there! An anomaly is something that is totally unusual. End stress like that on a 2nd conjugation verb is an anomaly, in all other verbs the stress falls...

It has to do with historical stress. Some words, like лес, рука, земля and others (you can find lists of fixed phrases like рукá óб руку in grammar books) still show the old pattern. There is a...