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Did you know that the /f/ sound is not always represented by the letter ‘f’?
It’s written as the letter ‘f’ or two letters ‘ff’ 91% of the time. What about the remaining 9% of words?
English explained
Stress does matter
Stress does matters in English. : “huge METAL fan” vs “huge metal FAN” or “LIGHThouse keeping vs light HOUSEkeeping” or “ criminal Lawyer” vs “Criminal lawyer “…. or.. ADD YOURS
39 – Randy Newman can or can’t – Speech in Action
39 – Randy Newman can or can’t – Speech in Action
— Read on www.speechinaction.org/39-randy-newman-can-or-cant/
What if English were Phonetically consistent?
And then a…
And 2 dogs 🐕 and 3 cats 🐈 and 3 turtles 🐢 and then 2 dogs 🐕 and then 3 cats 🐈 and then 3 turtles 🐢 …. how is this for pron ???!!!
L’inglese nelle scuole italiane
Diversi studenti mi hanno detto che le loro insegnanti d inglese a scuola chiedono che si impari a memoria i paradigmi dei verbi irregolari non in base alla pronuncia ma esattamente così come scritti .. seriously ? C A U G H T invece di kɔːt….
Sunday Pron
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✔In words ending in -mb, the “b” is not pronounced.
▪Climb /klaɪm/
▪Comb /kəʊm/
▪Bomb /bɒm/
▪Lamb /læm/
▪Limb /lɪm/
▪Numb /nʌm/
▪Crumb /krʌm/
▪Thumb /θʌm/
Perché? Perché? Perché ?
Why? Perché la parola “BOW” può avere due significati diversi a seconda del modo in cui viene pronunciata ? E alloraaaaaa….