You've probably gotten your picture taken and you know that when you do you usually say cheese.

So of course the natural question is what if you're lactose intolerant? Rachel is on the line with this now. she runs Rachel's English and she's an

elocution expert. So Rachel what's a word we can use instead of cheese?

Anything with the e vowel, a long e vowel, one syllable word would be best. So you could say she or need.

Could I just say me? You could. You could. Because that I mean that you're taking a photo to remember yourself so I think actually saying me would be a great option.

Maybe just saying e yeah let's let's the three of us let's see what that sounds like okay who's taking the picture

jillian I'll take the picture.

Okay.

Three, two, one.

E.

You guys are doing it too short.

Really?

Part of it is, when you hold it out, when you hold out any sound, I think you sort of, you can start

to exaggerate the position a little bit and so see as you hold that out you might pull the corners of your lips wider than you would if you

were just going to say it really quickly.

This is to say nothing of the dead look in our eyes as we're doing this and we just hold that e sound out.

Yes, your eyes can be completely dead and devoid of emotion, but as long as you're holding out

an e, you're going to have something that could be interpreted as a smile.

So you know I guess a lot of the photos you see especially nowadays,

there's a pouty face. people don't choose to smile.

So if I want to make the best pouty face, what words should I use?

It would probably be something with the o vowel like boo

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