Thursday, July 28, 2011

Pronunciation

We are nearing oral for the P6 students.  Hence, let us begin a little collection of words that are pronounced differently.  Many of these words have a different pronunciation from what they seem as they are borrowed from foreign languages (e.g. French, Spanish, etc.).

Words with different pronunciation than what is spelt:

NOTE: I am not following IPA or any convention of phonics especially here; am just sounding them out using familiar words)
1.  Alkali (al-ka-lie)
2.  Alibi (a-ler-by)
3.  Facade (fe-sard)
4.  Subpoena (sub-pee-na)
5.  Rendezvous (ron-day-voo)
6.  Quay (key)
7.  Parquet (par-kay)
8.  Suite (sweet)
9.  Photographer (Fer-to-grapher)

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