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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

pronunciation of 'world'

I always have a problem pronouncing 'world'. I often get hesitated when it is before another word such as 'world game', 'world wide web', or 'world wind tour'. I tend to swallow the 'ld'. How do you pronounce it?

Please help!
  

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(... com. Click the audio button to hear it.

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  • com.
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  • Note that there are two portions to the word, almost two syllables, really.
  • wor and ld , like wor and uld .
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(... I often get hesitated hesitate when ...)

Try looking it up at www.m-w.com.
Click the audio button to hear it.

Note that there are two portions to the word, almost two syllables, really.
wor
and ld, like wor and uld.

As far as connecting world to the followin

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