144. The Chaos of English Pronunciation

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 29 August 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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3 poems that demonstrate some difficulties with English spelling and pronunciation. To read the 3 poems that you can hear in this podcast episode click this link http://teacherluke.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/144-the-chaos-of-english-pronunciation/

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information visit teacher Luke.
0:05.8	WordPress.com.
0:11.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen you're listening to Luke's English podcast this is Luke here and
0:15.1	well let's see how can I explain this episode earlier on today I was on the internet
0:21.8	and I found a picture.
0:24.0	Well, it's basically a poem.
0:26.0	And I thought, oh, that's an interesting poem.
0:28.0	I'll post it onto my Facebook page.
0:31.0	And the listeners to Luke's English podcast who like the Facebook page, they might enjoy it and find it interesting.
0:37.0	The poem is one that was written a number of years ago and was designed specifically to highlight all of the irregularities and inconsistencies between English spelling and pronunciation. So you might know as a learner of English or
0:55.3	even a speaker of English or whatever that English pronunciation and spelling don't
1:00.6	really link up very well together. We don't spell in a phonetic way and as you well know
1:08.7	there are many many many different exceptions. It's very difficult to kind of create a set of easily
1:16.9	followable rules for pronunciation. You know you might find that some words are spelled in one way and pronounce you know you might get words that have O-G-H and in some words they're pronounced o-o-o-o-o, some words are pronounced ao, some words are pronounced oo some words are pronounced uff you know there
1:36.2	doesn't seem to be any logic to it now I thought I'll just post that on the Facebook page and my listeners are going to find it interesting and possibly enjoyable or something.
1:48.0	But what I did there is I opened up a huge can of worms.
1:52.0	Maybe you don't know that expression, but if you open a can of
1:55.9	worms, it kind of means that you create a very difficult situation which then kind of becomes very hard to manage. So you do something that then
2:05.9	creates a very difficult situation. For example, you mention something or you ask a
2:10.7	question, in this case I posted something on Facebook and I opened a can of worms,
2:16.0	meaning that suddenly everyone started to comment on a moment saying things like,
2:23.0	but how the hell are we supposed to know
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