THOUGH | THROUGH | THOUGHT| THOROUGH | British English Pronunciation
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Hello everyone welcome back to English with Lucy
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I've got a short little pronunciation video for you today
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I do read the comments and I am taking into my account
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I've got a long list of topics that I need to cover
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but today, I 'thought' we should take a 'thorough' look 'through'
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some words and even 'though' they can be quite difficult
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I'm pretty sure I can help you with them
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So today, we are looking at these 4 words here
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Let's look at the first one
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THOUGH /ðəʊ/
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then we have
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THOROUGH /ˈθʌrə/
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and then
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THROUGH /θruː/
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and finally
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THOUGHT /θɔːt/
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Let's divide these words
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into two sections
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those that start with
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/θ/
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the unvoiced consonant
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and those that start with
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/ð/
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the voiced consonant
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'thorough', 'thought' and 'through'
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start with the "unvoiced consonant"
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and 'though' starts with the
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/ð/
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"voiced consonant"
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now let's look at the vowel sounds
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the big odd one out is that 'thorough' has "two syllables"
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so start with "THOR" it's got the /ʌ/ vowel sound
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which is the stressed syllable
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and then the second syllable the unstressed syllable
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is the "Schwa"
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/ə/
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THOROUGH /ˈθʌrə/
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THROUGH /θruː/
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Okay?
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we got a long /uː/ sound
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THROUGH /θruː/
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/uː/
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with THOUGHT /θɔːt/
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we've got the /ɔː/ sound
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/ɔː/
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THOUGHT /θɔːt/
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and it ends with the "t"
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THOUGH /ðəʊ/ has a diphthong it has the /əʊ/ sound
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/ð/
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/əʊ/
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THOUGH /ðəʊ/
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Ok
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So we got "thorough, through, thought, though"
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hopefully that kid up all your doubts
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I'm going to ask you guys a favor
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next time you see anyone with a doubt
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about how to pronounce any of these words
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I want you to send them this video
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I see people worrying about these words
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all the time and I know that we can help them now
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with this video, if you want to learn more about
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