How to Pronounce “change”

Suffix Stress Shifts — Photograph to Photography to Photographic

Why adding a suffix moves the stress: photograph, photography, photographic. The -tion, -ic and -ity endings that decide where the weight lands.

Contrastive Stress — How Emphasis Changes Sentence Meaning

Stressing a different word changes what a sentence means. The rules of emphasis, correction and contrast, with the classic seven-meanings sentence.

Irregular Plural Pronunciation — Children, Mice, Geese, Teeth

The six irregular plurals that actually matter — children, mice, geese, oxen, teeth and analyses — with audio and the three historical mechanisms behind them.

• Soft G and J sounds