Today March 20th is international day of Happiness!
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and a song for you DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY
Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Monday, 11 March 2019
Minimal pairs
Chess? Cheese? Beach? .....? Pronunciation IS important. This story, already a classic by now, is particularly funny and illustrative of how a sound can completely change the meaning of a word (By the way, sorry about the dirty words -I hope nobody takes offence ...:-)
These words (Sheep/ship) are called “minimal pairs” (pairs of words which differ in only one 'sound' (phoneme) and have different meanings. Here (and in your book CD) you have many other good examples:
http://www.shiporsheep.com/page1.html (just put the cursor on the words, don't click on them)
These words (Sheep/ship) are called “minimal pairs” (pairs of words which differ in only one 'sound' (phoneme) and have different meanings. Here (and in your book CD) you have many other good examples:
http://www.shiporsheep.com/page1.html (just put the cursor on the words, don't click on them)