I once met a female scholar whose disyllabic name included the character nan 男.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE PARTICULATE RULE.] Reference

If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Martial V shows the proportion of non-disyllabic endings at 20\% -- the shorter the poem, the more freely they are admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

The reason is that some of these disyllabic prepositions are used as adverbs, and, when separated from their nouns, give one the impression that they are used as adverbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference

However, although his actual name isn't Miltonic or especially literary, it is indeed trisyllabic with a disyllabic nickname, and Latinate, and has at least a sort of Early Modern connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ferule & Fescue] Reference

The third is mono-rhymed throughout, the lines being disyllabic with licence to extend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Comments like "The cuckoo was so named for the one-note song it repeats over and over" came from someone who has never heard the bird's disyllabic call.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference

Partly, perhaps, as a result of her acquaintance with Italian literature, she had a marked fondness for disyllabic rhymes; and since pure rhymes of this kind are not plentiful in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference

So far as my observation goes, it is attached to monosyllabic or short disyllabic bases suggesting (often themselves in truncated form) the thing to which the person is addicted.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference

The hieratic accent is discovered chiefly in the first half of the verse: where the natural accent of a disyllabic word is neglected and the stress falls constantly on the final syllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Usually the information comes in the shape of a mystery story, a puzzle about a detail of a language: Why are there monosyllabic words in Barbaram when related languages seemed universally disyllabic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference

Partly, perhaps, as a result of her acquaintance with Italian literature, she had a marked fondness for disyllabic rhymes; and since pure rhymes of this kind are not plentiful in English, she tried the experiment of using assonances instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

In this first book he ends the pentameter freely with words of three, four, and five syllables; the monotony of the perpetual disyllabic termination, which afterwards became the normal usage, is hardly compensated by the increased smoothness which it gives the verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin Literature] Reference

Chinese may be said to consist of a vast number of monosyllables, each expressed by a different ideograph, each having a distinct significance, and each capable of combination and permutation with one or more of the others, by which combinations and permutations disyllabic and trisyllabic words are obtained representing every conceivable shade of meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

A structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

I can think of two (and a half) reasons why the stress might've moved in this case: (1) the British like to move the stress to the front of words, which is where most native disyllabic English nouns would be stressed (recall our discussion of beret, ballet, etc.) and (1.5) maybe this need is particularly felt when the word is compounded, since we expect the first element in a noun compound to be more heavily stressed, or (2) perhaps he is thinking of goatee as an adjective meaning 'goaty' -- after all, it's a beard that's like a goat's.    From Wordnik.com.  [separated by a common language] Reference