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Cnice Junior Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
How do you pronounce renounce and reject
Is renounce pronounced "ree nouns"
And is reject pronounced "ruh ject"
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/ or anything in between. CJ
- / or anything in between.
- CJ
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The first syllable is the same for both, and depending on the speaker the vowel may be "ee" /i:/ or "ih" /?/ or anything in between.
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The vowel sound in an unstressed syllable is a schwa in American Broadcast English no matter how it is spelled. That covers the first syllable of both "renounce" and the verb "reject". The first syllable of the noun "reject" has the stress and is pronounced to rhyme with "tree". The second syllable of "renounce" is pronounced the same as "ounce" with an "n" in front. The second syllable of "r
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