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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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How to pronounce the superlative eding -est

Hi all!
I´m wondering if our teacher teach us how to pronounce the eding -est correctly. In words like biggest, younges, is it really always -?st?
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` It's neither '- e st' nor '- i st' but a schwa, or neutral, unstressed vowel sound — shown in IPA as ? The exception is 'best'. Rover

— Rover_KE

  • ` It's neither '- e st' nor '- i st' but a schwa, or neutral, unstressed vowel sound — shown in IPA as ?
  • The exception is 'best'.
  • Rover
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It's neither '-est' nor '-ist' but a schwa, or neutral, unstressed vowel sound — shown in IPA as ?.

The exception is 'best'.

Rover
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