Continuing with my English lessons.
– failure. Americans pronounce it as fai-lee-ur, while the British say fai-lyuh.
– cleanliness. Interestingly, it’s not [kleen-lee-nuhs], but [klen-li-nuhs]. For some reason, clean turns into clen.
– thoroughly – pronounced as [thur-ow-lee]. For some reason, I was inserting an “f”.
– particularly – [pr-TI-kyuh-lr-lee]. In some American dialects the letter r is pronounced, in our regions – not. It’s perfectly normal to hear it as [pa-TI-kyuh-la-lee]. Another such complicated word – primarily. I mistakenly pronounced it with the emphasis on ‘pri’. Correctly – [prai-MEH-ruh-lee]
– distributed – the emphasis is on the second [i]. [duh·STRI·byoo·tuhd]
– Draught is pronounced as draft. And means the same (about beer)
– leopard is pronounced without “o” and with the emphasis on “e”. [leh-prd]
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 