This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 2466.

Picky pronunciation, Part 1.

Should I use two or three syllables?

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slash fluency score. That's all-earsenglish.com slash F-L-U-E-N-C-Y-S-C-O-R-E. Hey, Aubrey. How are you doing today? How's everything? I'm great. How are you, Lindsay? Good. Glad to be on the microphone today. I have a question for you, a hot take question. You ready?

All right. Let's hear it. Yeah. All right. So in English, do you say restaurant or do you say

restaurant? Ooh, that is a good question. I feel like I say both. I think sometimes I'll say

restaurant when I'm speaking quickly. And every now and then I

will say restaurant. I'll make it three syllables. So this is really interesting. What about you,

Lindsay? I almost always say, pretty much always say restaurant. Restaurant. Because I'm focusing on

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