American English Pronunciation Podcast

180: because → 'cuz: stressed, unstressed, informal

How to know which form of this high-frequency word to ...

How to know which form of this high-frequency word to use

179: The silent 'p' in pneumatic and psychology

A listener request for an explanation of less-common patterns

178: "Feeling" the vibration of vowel sounds

long e /i/, short a /æ/, and short o /ɑ/

177: -ate suffix revisited--advanced lesson

Highly fluent speakers understand this suffix!

176: Swearing!

If you're going to swear, you'd better be able to ...

If you're going to swear, you'd better be able to pronounce short vowel sounds!

175: Short Vowels Minimal Sets

Practice sets like: pat, pet, pit, pot, putt

174: 3-sound clusters beginning with 's'

/skr/ /spl/ /spr/ and /str/

173: Digraphs and trigraphs

sh, th, tch, dge, gn, mb, and more!

172: The 'c-c' spelling

Is it /k/ as in 'accuse' or /ks/ as in ...

Is it /k/ as in 'accuse' or /ks/ as in 'succeed'

171: The silent l in the word 'salmon'

Even words we don't use that often still matter