Apart from a  'p'  and a  'd'  ,  what makes these words ( poor , door ) pronounced differently?
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The stupidity of the English Language!\n\nTo is 2 but go is not "goo"
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Well, you don't wanna sound like daffy duck by saying "filippines" which can sound like filiffines or pilipino...w/ too many hard p sounds. I think it's spelled that way for ease in pronounciation.
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Paaaahm- you ignore the L sound and elongate the A sound. The a in this case is pronounced as in the A in "Answer"
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The pronunciation of the -ed or -d in the simple past and past participle of regular verbs depends on the final sound of the infinitive (notice I'm talking about "sound" not necessarily "letter").\n\nIf the final sound is either "t" or "d", then you read the final -(e)d as /id/: wait- waited /weitid/, invite - invited /invaitid/, add - added /adid/\n\nThe pronunciation is as /t/ if the final sound is any of the following: /p/, /k/, /ch/, /sh/, /s/, /f/ or /th (as in "think", not as in "they"). This is because all of these sounds are "voiceless" (i.e.: pronounced without vibration of the vocal chords) so you need another "voiceless" sound, as /t/. E.g.: look - looked /lukt/, pass- passed /past/...\n\nFor all of the other final sounds, you don't pronounce the "e" and you do pronounce the "d". This is because all of the remaining sounds are "voiced" (i.e.: pronounced by making the vocal chords vibrate) so you need another "voiced" sound, as /d/. E.g.: live - lived /livd/, seem - seemed /si:md/...\n\nThe same principle (or actually very similar) applies for the pronunciation of the final -s in plural and 3rd person verbs. /z/ for voiced endings, /s/ for voiceless endings, and /iz/ for words ending in /s/ or /z/ (or also /sh/ or /j/).
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There a historical reasons for the spelling.  For example, "hour" is spelled with an "h" because it comes from French "heure" and was never pronounced in English.  But other silent letters aren't really silent at all.  For example, take "race" and "rack".  Both could be spelled "rac", but then you would not know whether the "c" was pronounced like the "c" in "cat" or the "c" in "city".  The "e" in "race" says "pronounce the 'c' like an 's'", while the "k" in "rack" says "pronounce the 'c' like a 'k'" (the "k" is the silent letter in "rack").  So don't disparage the "silent letters".  They aren't really "silent" at all, but give us important information about how to pronounce the other letters in the word.
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You're just acting like your name, aren't you?\n\nOf course this rule only relates to the final silent e changing the initial vowel sound.  There are numerous examples where the initial vowel sound is short an unaffected by the final vowel sound:\nDELI\nDIVA\nFETA\nJAVA\nKILO\nLIMO\nMAGI\nMENU\nMESA\nMINI\nPAPA\netc.
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r they vowels......??
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And on top of these answers there is mine:\n\nKraków is pronounced /krakoof/\n\njust because the "ó" letter is a orthographic variation of a letter"u", which is pronounced in Polish "oo" like in "foot"\n*"a" is pronounced like in "cut"
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I would guess, try to pronounce each letter - so there should be a T sound before the S, the I will be as in Miss, the L will be pronounced longer than a single L, than AN as in Sand.
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The a's in Spanish are pronounced ahh as in open your mouth and say "ahhh"\nThe e's are pronounced "ey" part in the word "hey".\nthe i's are pronounced "eee"\nthe o's are pronounced "oh" and the \nu's are pronounced like the "oo" in "boo".\nIf you can remember that then you can say just about any word in Spanish correctly.
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The dictionary says it can be pronounced either way.  But what difference does it make?  The Celtics say "Celtics," and  that's  that.
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D is a low grade (I tried F first)\n10 is the 5th non-prime (4, 6, 8, 9, 10)\nShun is one word for looking down on someone\n\nThen pronounce it together and you get:\n\nDetention
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In older "native English" (Anglo-Saxon) words "ch" has the "hard" pronunciation you see in "check" or "chief".   In words borrowed from the French it often has the "sh"-sound  -- as in "charlatan" and "CHEF".      If it helps you, picture a FRENCH chef.
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Yes its true. They say it without the 'r' but it sounds like they said it with the 'r'. Its more common with Yorkshiremen and Australians, I think.
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i dont get it. unless i am saying it wrong i pronounce it just like it is spelled:  fo-net-ics (ph makes a f sound btw.)
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They are spelt differently
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pauvres: po-vruh (It's important to break the syllables between the vowel and the "v", not after the "v")\n\nengagement: a(n)-gazh-ma(n) (The letter "n" is not pronounced here; instead, the vowel preceding it is nasalized) - it has various meanings, including: "kickoff", "commitment", "agreement", "recruitment" or "enlistment"\n\nstades: stahd - it means "stadiums"\n\nroads = rues: ryu (pronounced like "roo" but with the lips puckered a little); "route" (pronounced "root") is okay, too, but it implies a larger, more industrial road like a highway, rather than a dusty side street\n\nRather than saying "Le foot est joué dans les rues d'Afrique," it sounds more authentic to say "En Afrique, on joue au foot dans les rues."