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"He wore a vest which was bulletproof" was one of the 20 sentences students of my English phonetics courses had to read aloud. The adjective is pronounced /bʊlɪtpruːf/. Quite a few of my young professionals pronounced it as /bʌlətpruːf/. They never seem to have watched a whodunit.
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It's universal. It's also possible they spent too much time watching whodunits and too little time listening to you.
ReplyDeleteThe second picture shows a rather extreme way of getting your students to pronounce English correctly, Petr, if you don't mind me saying so.
ReplyDeleteI've tried that. But they tend to stammer, for some reason.
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