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

My name is Mandy, and this is our 43rd episode.

I hope you enjoyed last week's video podcast about long and short vowels and the long and short

A sound spellings and pronunciations.

I was originally hoping to have another video podcast published next week, but it looks

like it will be more likely to be released January 23rd. I was teaching a corporate class intensive this week,

and I'm now a little behind on getting the videos started. But that reminds me, if you would like

Seattle Learning Academy classes to come to your workplace, visit www.com to learn about class options and details.

Today I'm going to talk about two more difficult little words, the word world, W-O-R-L-D, and the word

Word, W-O-R-D. For some people, the difficulties with these words starts

right at the beginning of them, with the W sound. Remember, the W sound is created by

making the lips into a small circle. It sounds like this.

Ooh.

You should feel the vibration equally on the top and bottom lip.

If you feel more vibration on your bottom lip, you're probably accidentally creating a

V sound by placing the bottom lip too close to the top front teeth.

The V sound sounds like this.

V.

Say the W sound and check that your lips both feel the vibration equally.

Woo.

The next issue with the words world and word is the letter O and the R sound.

For most words, the OR sound is pronounced like or.

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