Tag: Oral forms

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Stress placement in words ending in -able, -ment, -ism, and -ly

How to use correlative conjunctions without confusing your verb

The ‘a’ in ‘swAp’ is pronounced like the ‘o’ in ‘hOt’, same for ‘swAllow’, ‘squad’, ‘squat’

The letter ‘o’ in ‘gross’ is not pronounced like that in ‘loss’

‘Pizza’ is pronounced as ‘PEE-t-suh’, ‘marijuana’ as ‘mair-uh-WAH-nuh’

How to pronounce words that end in -or, -er, -ious, and -cally

‘Menace’ is pronounced /menis/, same as solace /solis/