The "a" in chocolate
Hi, I'm Jorge, from Brazil!
Can somebody please explain to me why the A in "chocolate" is not pronounced like the A in "face".
I've always pronounced it correctly, but this week I watched some videos on Syllable division and Magic E and I got confused.
Thanks!
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JorgeJunior Can somebody please explain to me why the A in "chocolate" is not pronounced like the A in "face". Because it is in an unstressed syllable.
- JorgeJunior Can somebody please explain to me why the A in "chocolate" is not pronounced like the A in "face".
- Because it is in an unstressed syllable.
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JorgeJuniorCan somebody please explain to me why the A in "chocolate" is not pronounced like the A in "face".
Because it is in an unstressed syllable.
0The connection between English spelling and English pronunciation is a weak one, so it's normal to find some oddities here and there.
As it happens, the stressed ending -ate is usually pronounced as in 'ate' when the word is a verb, but the unstressed ending -ate is very frequently pronounced 'it' in the case of other word classes. (These words in -ate are at l
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