How to Pronounce Word vs. World American English

actually I was just about to finish up

this blog entry when I was reminded of

an example that I wanted to use and that

is the difference between the word word

and the word world

I have noticed in my teaching that that

is a very difficult distinction for some

people to make and since world contains

this dark L I wanted to talk about it

watch closely as I say both words slowly

word word world world now I always say

that word is really one syllable and

world is really two syllables although

in actuality world is one syllable but

you need to say this distinct ol vowel

that comes before the L to make the dark

L so let’s talk about world were her

ole-ole

now that is that sound that comes before

the tongue moves up in the dark L and as

I said in the dark L you don’t actually

necessarily need to finish off the sound

with the tongue moving all the way up

were all old old world word world

word world