Enunciating English Properly

Download or read book Enunciating English Properly written by Pickering and published by Sts. Jude imPress. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph aims at teaching immigrants and local-accent citizens how to pronounce the written word properly, using, at times. famous speeches and humorous instances. It sets three simple rules: start each [non-first] syllable with a consonant; if there are two consonants, end the syllable with one and begin the next with the second; be sure to pronounce - but not emphasize - each word's final consonant. Exceptions to the rules are found to have their roots in ancient languages whose double consonant sounds are now written with single English letters so as to hold our alphabet to 26 letters. This is demonstrated by scrolling out ancient alphabets from 1450 BC to 1600 AD.