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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the sound, intonation, and stress of how words are uttered or produced.
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How do you pronounce Betelgeuse? (I'm afraid I don't get the joke)
For a "real" pronunciation, you need to ask someone who speaks Arabic as it sounded in medeval times, and have a native english (only) speaker try and repeat it. …
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I am a native Italian speaker. How can I avoid putting extra vowels on the end of words that...
My mother-in-law had that with some sounds. What I suggested, which worked, is to first use for practice a word where it matters; e.g. "big" which came out as "bigga" which sounds more like "bigger" …
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Spelling a word with two U's in a row out loud
When spelling something out loud, the intent is to be especially clear and unambiguous. To that end, even if you used the terminology "double" in general, you should avoid it in this case.
In fact, …
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"Ball" and "bowl" do they really sound the same?
They are definitely different. My wife (a native Mandarin speaker) has said “ball” for “bowl” in contexts where it was confusing, and initally learned some words wrong because she didn’t hear it corre …
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