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