Hi again and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy, and this is our 107th episode.

I have an update from last week's show. I did not properly fact-check the URL for the free Audible audiobook. The correct

URL is www.audiblepodcast.com slash pronuncian. Last week's podcast has been updated and fixed,

so only the people who downloaded that

episode in the first day or two heard the wrong URL.

Sorry for the confusion.

If you tried it last week and it didn't work, try it again using audiblepodcast.com slash

pronunciation.

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On to today's show.

Here is a bit of phonetic trivia.

The vowel sound before the letters,

CK, is almost always a short vowel sound.

This convenient detail can give you an extra level of confidence in your pronunciation

of those letters that can have multiple pronunciations, namely the letters U and O.

The letter U is commonly pronounced as either a short U as in the word son or the other U as in the word put.

It can be hard to know which pronunciation is correct.

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