Idiom: Ripped Off -- American English Pronunciation

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Rachel's English


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In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to go over the idiom 'ripped off'.
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To be ripped off means to be swindled or cheated. For example: they overcharged me by 10 bucks,
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I was ripped off.
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Ripped off begins with the R sound. Since it's a beginning R, your lips will come in
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and round quite a bit, rr, your tongue needs to be pulled this way, rrr, and you should
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be able to hold out that sound. R-ih. Then we have the IH as in SIT vowel. So the jaw
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drops a little bit, the tongue tip is down behind the bottom front teeth, and the front
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part of the tongue lifts a bit towards the roof of the mouth. Ri-, ri-. Then we have
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the P-T cluster. The ED is pronounced as a T because the sound before is unvoiced, pt,
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pt. So the lips come together for the P, when they open the tongue goes to the roof of the
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mouth for the T, p-t, p-t, ripped, ripped. The next word begins with a vowel, so we want
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to make sure to link it the to word before. So, it might feel like the T sound begins
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the word 'off' -- toff, toff, ripped off, ripped off. 'Off' with the AW as in LAW sound,
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ripped aw-- give yourself a little jaw drop. And finally, the F consonant sound, where
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the bottom lip comes up, ff, and the inside of it makes contact with the bottom of the
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top front teeth. Ripped off, ripped off. DA-DA, these are both stressed words. So it's not
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da-DA, or DA-da. It's DA-DA. Ripped off. I was ripped off.
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Have you ever been ripped off? Make up a sentence using this idiom and record yourself -- post
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it on YouTube as a video response to this video. I can't wait to watch.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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