Sunday, November 12, 2023

Perfecting Pronunciation

  What I heard - what I should have heard

deeped - dipped

mono-tone-us - monot -or -nuss

pon - pond

more easy should be more easily, adverb not adjective needs ly on the end. The y changed to the i in the middle of the word. Why. it is quicker with joined up writing and a letter either side. In the earlier times bevofre punctuation in Greek and other languages there were no spaces beetween words and you relied on the final version of the letter to show the end of the word.