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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

How do you pronunce position please, is it p?'z??.?n or p?'z??.?n ?
  

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In normal speech, the first is what we say. The second sounds a bit odd to me.

— Philip

  • In normal speech, the first is what we say.
  • The second sounds a bit odd to me.
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In normal speech, the first is what we say. The second sounds a bit odd to me.
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PhilipIn normal speech, the first is what we say. The second sounds a bit odd to me.
Because the first two letters are spelt po, do you have to replace letter o with schwa? To me that sounds lazy english not pronuncing the letter phonetically.
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Anonymous PhilipIn normal speech, the first is what we say. The second sounds a bit odd to me.Because the first two letters are spelt po, do you have to replace letter o with schwa? To me that sounds lazy english not pronuncing the letter phonetically.
Nothing lazy about it. The fact is, more than half of the unaccented vowels in English reduce to schwa in no
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