Name: How to Pronounce REFUSE & REFUSE - American English Heteronym Pronunciation Lesson
Uploaded: 2022-10-11T17:35:19.000Z
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Hi it's Jennifer from Tarle speech with  your heteronym pronunciation lesson.  

We have one common word today and  one word that's not as common. But  

um you do hear this word especially with  garbage in the United States. So we have  

refuse which is the verb meaning to deny. And  we have refuse which is a noun meaning garbage.

So common rule again we've talked  about this many weeks in a row,  

for words that are spelled the same, one is a  noun one is a verb, we typically stress most  

all of the time syllable number one in the  noun, and syllable number two in the verb. 

So that's very common in two-syllable  noun and verb heteronym pairs.

To say the word refuse we are going  to start with that R - R. Tip of the  

tongue is down or flipped back. Back  of the tongue just needs to be high  

up. Think about square tense lips and not  touching your tongue to your teeth. Okay.  

Then we are going to move, whoops, sorry. We're  going to move to that short e sound. To do that  

your mouth is slightly open. You're going to see  the tip of the tongue just between the top and  

the bottom teeth. It's not touching anywhere.  It's just flat in the middle of your mouth.

This is different than the long e in re. And to  do that smile. Your tongue is going to be nice  

high and tense and flat for that re. Next  we're going to move to that F sound. It's  

the same in both words. Gently touch the  teeth. Kind of bite either the bottom lip  

inside or outside with the teeth. Air moves  out of the mouth. Then we're going to move  

to that ew by puckering. Tongue is just  flat in the middle of the mouth for refuse.

We're going to end in an S sound. The tip of your  tongue is either pointed down or just behind the  

top teeth, air continuously moves out of your  mouth, your voice box is off and it is not moving. 

Now for fuse you're going to move your mouth in  the same way. A z is made in the exact same spot  

where you make an S. Tip of the tongue is down or  just behind the top teeth. The difference is the  

voice box is on and moving. fuse fuse fuse

When you have a voiceless and a voiced sound  after a vowel, the vowels might sound slightly  

different. Because the vowel before the S  which is unvoiced will sound a tiny bit shorter  

and the vowel before the Z which is voiced  will sound a sound a tiny bit longer.

Okay so let's put these all together. We have: 

refuse refuse refuse refuse refuse refuse

number one for refuse refuse refuse and two for refuse refuse refuse

And now for a sentence: If you do not separate your  

garbage correctly, the refuse collector may  refuse all of your garbage and recycling.

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