Business English words
Business English mixes plain Anglo-Saxon words with French borrowings that keep unusual sounds, like entrepreneur and liaison. Many also carry stress on an unexpected syllable, as in a-NAL-y-sis versus AN-a-lyst. Get the stress right and listeners forgive almost any vowel.
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Words that lose a syllable
Chocolate, comfortable, vegetable: fewer syllables than the spelling suggests. Hear the real count.
WH words
What, where, who, whole: the WH spelling covers three different sounds. Hear which is which.
Legal terms
Subpoena, plaintiff, voir dire, tort: courtroom vocabulary with unpredictable pronunciation.
Tech and programming words
Cache, GIF, Linux, tuple, SQL: developer vocabulary that even engineers argue about.
Travel words
Itinerary, concierge, lounge, queue: airport and hotel vocabulary said the right way.
Animal names
Chameleon, hyena, koala, giraffe: animal vocabulary with unexpected stress and vowels.
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