How do you pronounce horrible

Usage explanations of natural written and spoken English. Grammar Thesaurus. Word Lists. Choose your language. My word lists. Tell us about this example sentence:. The word in the example sentence does not match the entry word. The sentence contains offensive content. Cancel Submit. Your feedback will be reviewed. It's just not the same sound as the O in Russian.

Not part of their phonotactics. In fact, both the St Petersburg and the Kiev dialect are expressly more O-centric than the Moscow dialect I'm a native speaker of. They'll probably make fun of me speaking Russian, too. Then she goes further and voices the ss because it stands in a fully-voiced environment bz --ss-- d. Add a comment.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Wow, this is getting really good! I wish I could upvote you once for every edit you've made! DanBron: Thanks, there are probably more to come as well! By the way, how do you pronounce "historian," "historic," "explore," and "exploratory"?

Do you have a vowel shift between these pairs of words? Laura , Laurence? I think your reference is incorrect Canadian near Toronto here -- my "sorry" rhymes with "starry", but lots of others say "sore-y". Show 7 more comments. Peter Shor Peter Shor Thanks, though I think I'd have to change I'd have to learn to drive a car, for one thing. And I promise you I will never wait for a light to change before crossing a street which, bonus, makes traveling to other cities Dan: and you probably think that people who wear brown suits are hicks.

I had this conversation with a New Yorker once—I observed that in New York City, people only wear blue, gray, and black suits. He said that it's well-known that people who wear brown suits are hicks. I replied that if you walk through downtown Chicago on a business day, you see tons of brown suits. And his answer was that "there are lots of hicks in Chicago. Haha, don't be silly. I think everyone are hicks. I'm from southeastern Pennsylvania, and around here too these vowels are perfectly assonant: porridge, incorrigible, horrid, horrible, sorry, starry, orange Sorry and Starry aren't always pronounced with the same vowel sound.

Show 1 more comment. Dan Bron AmI AmI 3, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. I am not so interested in who is "closer to the original" as I am in divergence from the "most popular" or common AmE pronunciation.

What do you mean by 'English' and 'vowel'? Do you mean the 'Roman alphabet' and 'letters'? That would make sense, given that the Roman letter 'o' can represent many different sounds English pronunciation. I apologize for using 'English' instead of 'Modern Latin alphabet', and 'vowel' instead of 'vowel letter [grapheme]'.

Moz Empire Moz Empire 9 2 2 bronze badges. If you knew me, you'd likely call my mouth anything but lazy. As a middle class London-born native English Brit, with an ear for accents, I can honestly say that I have never come across anyone who actually spoke like Zellweger's Bridget Jones, unless they were doing a caricature accent of a very posh person.

How can I put it, British parts assembled into an unconvincing whole. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Linked Oxford Collocations Dictionary verbs be feel look … adverb really absolutely quite … preposition to See full entry.

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