How to Pronounce EVERY -- American English

In this American English pronunciation video,

we're going to go over the pronunciation

of the word ‘every’.

This week’s “word of the week” is ‘every’.

It’s a two syllable word with stress on the

first syllable. DA-da, every.

It looks like it might be a

three syllable word Ev-er-y but it’s not,

only two syllables. Ev-ery.

It begins with the EH as in BED vowel.

You can see we do need a good bit of jaw drop

for that sound. eh, eh ehv.

Then we have the V consonant sound where the

bottom lip will come up and make contact with

the bottom of the top front teeth. Ever-.

Then the lips will round to make the R sound

and the tongue will pull back

into the R position.

So the tip of the tongue shouldn’t be

touching anything. Ever-, r-.

And we end with the EE as in SHE vowel.

Tongue tip down here,

front part of the tongue stretching up

towards the roof of the mouth.

Sometimes non-native speakers

will take the ending unaccented EE sound

and relax it too much.

So it’s something more like. Eh, eh.

This is especially true of people from

Russia and Poland. Every, becomes ehvreh, eh.

So make sure you don’t relax too much,

your tongue does need a lot of lift there

up towards the roof of the mouth

to get the EE sound and the corners

of your lips may pull wide a little bit.

Every, every.

We’re going to meet every other week.

That’s it your “word of the week”.

If there is a word you would like to suggest

for the “word of the week”

put it in the comments below.

That’s it, and thanks so much for using

Rachel’s English.