More Pronunciation Tips
June 14th, 2004
Watching the news is always a reminder of how people in this country can’t speak. Here are three more for you:
1. REALTOR. That is pronounced REEL-TOR. Not REEL-A-TOR. If you look closely at the word, you will notice that the A comes BEFORE the L. Very simple.
2. NUCLEAR. This is pronounced NUC-LEE-ER. Not NUC-YU-LAR. Our current president would do well to learn how to say this word correctly.
3. HEIGHT. There is no -th sound at the end of this word. It’s just height. I guess since “width” and “length” have the -th sound at the end, people just are on a roll and put it on height as well.
That is all for now. Class dismissed.
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I’ve been given a speaking lesson by my wonderful yank friend. Apparently, the word walk is one syllable and pronounced like wok. Not w-au-lk.Who knew?
Ditto to everything you’ve said. One other that really gets under my skin is ASTERISK. It’s AS-TER-ISK, Not AS-TER-IK. That second S always slips through the cracks somehow.