Dean F. Add a comment. Examples: When t comes between two consonant sounds, it's often elided. It's for the sake of ease. Moving to OP's question: There are lots of words in which the vowel is dropped when it occurs in an unstressed syllable immediately following the stressed syllable. See Michael Harvey's comments: I say choc o late.
Decapitated Soul Decapitated Soul 16k 10 10 gold badges 68 68 silver badges bronze badges. There is a fine podcast, Lexicon Valley, where linguist John McWhorter discusses such things as reasons why words are pronounced differently in different regions or dialects, or why syllables drop out of speech or in some cases added as languages evolve. McWhorter has written many books on the subject, as have many others. And the answer to this specific question might well be a matter of debate among linguists.
In a comment John Lawler wrote: Every question that asks Why is not pronounced? Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Related 0. These high tables. And the bar is probably going to be somewhere else. Some people choose not to. It used to be really typical to get married in a church, less so now. A lot of my friends as well. Everywhere, candles, candles, candles. And, um, the chocolate that used to be made in this factory.
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By placing the accent mark ' over stressed syllables and the - over the unstressed syllables. Who loved his charge but never loved to lead' One whose meek. A cylindrical mug of hot chocolate measures 9. The top 2. Rounding to the nearest mL, how much hot chocolate is. Find the probability that a randomly chosen chocolate dessert contains nuts. Can anyone help with this question? Your backpack contains chocolate bars, which you are going to divide between your best friend and yourself.
You think you are a nice person, so you will give your best friend more than zero. English words with two or more syllables usually have one stressed syllable and one or two schwa sounds. Also, extra schwa sounds appear when you put words into sentences.
See Stress in Sentences. There are some exceptions. For example, in volcano and chimpanzee each syllable is equal. These aren't really English words, of course. Volcano is from Italian and chimpanzee is from Kikongo. A lot of English words with two or more syllables are really two separate words, stuck together. So, in a two-syllable word like footpath, birthday or classroom , we stress both syllables equally, and there is no schwa sound. If a word has three or four syllables, there may be two stressed syllables.
Usually, one will be the main stress, and the secondary stress will be less obvious. For example, ra di a tion. The main stress is on the third syllable. There are some words that we often use to emphasize a point, or even to exaggerate.
Let's look at the words really and amazing. If you want to say that something is " really good ", you want lots of stress. If you say the correct vowels and consonants but the wrong stress, people will often misunderstand you.
For example, the words volunteer and frontier look completely different on paper. Similarly, if you say abundance with the wrong stress, in other words if you say "ABundance", people may hear the word evidence.
The difference between b and h is not enough.
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