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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Handout p. 12 and 14 have pronunciation symbols for different sounds in English.
- My first name is Greg and the pronunciation is /grɛg/.
- Walk around the room and ask your classmates how to pronounce their first names (or nicknames) and write their names in phonetic symbols.
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- What English words are these?
- 1. /riːd/ = read or reed
- (/raɪd/ = ride)
- 2. /rɪd/ = rid
- 3. /ˈvaɪtəl/ = vital
- 4. /tʌf/ = tough (“tuff” is wrong but not stupid)
- 5. /ˈkʌmftərˌbl/ = comfortable
- 6. /ˈlæbrəˌtori/ = laboratory (British: /ləˈborəˌtri/)
- 7. /kʊd/ = could
- 8. /kʌd/ = cud
- 9. /haʊs/ = house
- 10. /ɔt/ = ought
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- English is hard. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
- trough
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- Homework: Transcribe the phonetic sayings into English (handout). Each one is a phrase or short sentence.
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