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

My name is Mandy, and this is our 177th episode.

Last week, we released our short eye video to YouTube. You can see that video by going to the

Seattle Learning YouTube channel or by clicking the videos tab on pronunciation.com. There's a section

in the short eye video that explains which suffixes are pronounced with a short eye sound.

If you want to skip straight to the suffixes part of the video, there's a link at the beginning

of the YouTube channel version that allows you to jump straight to the suffixes section.

In that section, I mentioned the A-T-E suff suffix. The A.T.e. suffix is, I think, a real

chameleon of a suffix. A chameleon is a type of lizard that changes itself according to its

situation, and the A.T.

suffix pronunciation changes in a lot of ways.

Becoming highly fluent in an American English accent means understanding this suffix and

being able to manipulate it accordingly. This can be easier to accomplish with a teacher.

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web page, www. www.seattlelearning.com. Now let's get back to the ATE suffix.

I've talked before about this complex suffix and the fact that it's pronounced with two

different vowel sounds, the short I and the long A. This change is based on which part of

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