What letter links the
"o" and "i" in the word "going?"
What letter links the
"e" and "a" in the word "create?"
What letter links the words
"Palo Alto?"
What letter links the words
"so" and "I?"
What letter links the words
"I" and "am?"
What letter links the words
"we" and "agree?"
How many syllables are in the word "several?"
Which letter is silent?
How many syllables are in the word "vegetable?"
Which letter is silent?
How do you pronounce these
two words?
Ford
Stanford
How do you pronounce the following words?
Hose
Dose
Lose
How do you punctuate the following sentences?
Where are the pauses?
1. Kathy said my mother is on the porch. (Kathy is talking.)
2. Kathy said my mother is on the porch. (The mother is talking.)
Complete the following
well-known lines.
1. "Who's on ______."
2. "Follow the _____ _____ _____."
3. "There's no place
_____ _____."
4. "Fasten your ______. It's going to be a _____ _____ _____."
5. "All right, _____ _____,
I'm ready for ______ _____."
6. "The stuff that _____ _____ _____ _____."
7. " _____ _____ _____ no respect."
8. "It _____ _____ _____
it's over."
9. "Nobody who ever _____ _____ _____ regretted it."
W
go (w) ing
Y
cre (y) ate
W
Palo (w) Alto
W
so (w) I
Y
I (y) am.
Y
We (y) agree.
Several
2 syllables
The second "e" is silent.
Vegetable
3 syllables
The second "e" is silent.
Ford = F OR d
(one syllable)
Stanford = Stan FER d
(two syllables - the stress is on the first syllable)
Though all three words end in "ose," they are all
pronounced differently.
Hose = HoZe
Dose = DoSe
Lose = LOOZ
1. Kathy said, "My mother is on
the porch."
(Kathy is talking.)
Pause after "said."
2. "Kathy," said my mother, "is on the porch."
(The mother is talking.)
Pause after "Kathy" and "mother."
1. "Who's on First."
Abbott and Costello
2. "Follow the yellow brick road."
The Wizard of Oz
3. "There's no place like home."
The Wizard of Oz
4. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
All About Eve
5. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
Sunset Boulevard
6. "The stuff that dreams
are made of."
The Maltese Falcon
7. "I don't get no respect."
Rodney Dangerfield
8. "It ain't over till it's over."
Yogi Berra
9. "Nobody who ever gave
his best regretted it."
George Halas
When the vowel sounds of /a(y)/, /e(y)/, or /i(y)/ link with a following vowel, the vowel sounds are connected by the off-glide /y/.*
Ay
Ey
Iy
When the vowel sounds of /o(w)/ or /u(w)/ link with a following vowel, the vowel sounds are connected by the off-glide /w/.*
Ow
Uw
I AM sounds like - I yam.
WE AGREE sounds like - We ya greee.
WE ALWAYS sounds like - We yall wayz.
GO OUT sounds like - Go wout.
SO I sounds like - So why.
*For more information on the off-glides /y/ and /w/, see Clear Speech, Third Edition, by Judy B. Gilbert
I read each paper every day and every night.
Stretching the vowel sounds and linking the words, the sentence sounds like -
Eye reeed deech pay per rev vreee day yand dev vreee n eye t.
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I hire every student each year.
Stretching the vowel sounds and linking the words, the sentence sounds like -
Eye hi yer rev vreee stew dunt teach year.
Vowel Sound 1 (V-1)* - as in:
eat, seat, see
Vowel Sound 2 (V-2)* - as in:
it, bit, sit
In the word - California - the first i is V-2, as in "it."
California sounds like -
Cal li (as in "it") for nya
nya is one short syllable.
li - Practice saying "live for" ("live" as a verb) several times.
Then drop the ve.
Practice saying "li for" a few times.
That will help ensure the V-2 sound.
4 syllables
The stress is on the 3rd syllable - "for."
Cal li FOR nya
*For more information on V-1 and V-2, see Perfecting the Sounds of American English by Bernard Silverstein, Ph.D.
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Sources referenced:
Perfecting the Sounds of American English
by Bernard Silverstein, Ph.D.
Clear Speech, Third Edition
by Judy B. Gilbert
The New York Times
ON PRO FOOTBALL
Fasten Your Seat Belts, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Ride in the N.F.C.
By Mike Freeman
Nov. 22, 2000
(References the film - All About Eve - 1950.)
PBS News Hour
How the Smithsonian helped the FBI in the case of stolen ruby slippers
By Julia Griffin
Science
Oct 19, 2018 5:05 PM EDT
In the middle of the night on Aug. 28, 2005, a pair of ruby slippers from the classic movie “The Wizard of Oz,” were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Twelve years later, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sting operation–location undisclosed–that captured a pair of size-five women’s high heels covered in faded red sequins.
(References the film - The Wizard of Oz - 1939.)
The Washington Post
'Groundhog Day' at IRS: Returns pile up, phone delays worsen
By Fatima Hussein | AP
June 22, 2022 at 1:54 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON — It’s Groundhog Day at the IRS.
(References the film - Groundhog Day - 1993.)
The Washington Post
‘Doctor Strange’: Love? Like is closer to the truth.
November 3, 2016
(References the film - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 1964.)
The Washington Post
Osborn Elliott, Looking Back Down Journalism's Yellow Brick Road
By Lon Tuck
May 26, 1980
(References the film - The Wizard of Oz - 1939.)
The Guardian
Violin used for Wizard of Oz’s Over the Rainbow expected to reach $20m at auction
Instrument featured in the 1939 musical classic was made in Antonio Stradivari’s ‘golden period’
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
Fri 3 Jun 2022 06.11 EDT
Last modified on Sat 4 Jun 2022 04.46 EDT
(References the film - The Wizard of Oz - 1939.)
The Guardian
Sunset Boulevard at 70: We’re all Norma Desmond now
Tom Joudrey
Tue 4 Aug 2020 07.32 EDT
(References the film - Sunset Boulevard - 1950.)
Vanity Fair
Gloria Swanson Was More Than Ready for Her Close-Up
OCTOBER 12, 2021
(References the film - Sunset Boulevard - 1950.)
The New York Times
Toto, There's No Place Like Off Off Broadway
By Margo Nash
July 27, 2003
(References the film - The Wizard of Oz - 1939.)
See pronunciation and diction
scenes in the clip below - from the film,
Singin' in the Rain - 1952.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZwZO40r4X0