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From: Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: to pronunce any word in English
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:04:09 -0800
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Chakaba <Chak@ba.fr> wrote:
>Melody
>Melodic
>
>Hear
>heard
>
>Break
>Bread
>
>What are the rules for being able to pronunce any word in English?
There are no such rules, or at least there is no concise set of such
rules (that is, any exhaustive set of rules would consist mostly of
long lists of exceptions).
English has many words whose pronunciations are a fluke of history
rather than the result of set of rules, and many loan words from other
languages. Also, there many fairly common words whose pronunciation
depends on context (Job, Polish, Present).
It's mostly memorization.
>I am a new learner, just six months.
>Thanks in advance.
>Have a nice Sunday
As Philip Baker suggests in another message, find a book and study it.
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