Name: Learn to Pronounce FOX, FAX, FACTS not F*CKS | American English Embarrassing Mistake #learnenglish
Uploaded: 2026-01-12T18:06:12.000Z
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Do you want to avoid an embarrassing pronunciation mistake?

This is a request from a student, and the words are fox and fax.

Fox is a small animal and fax is a way of electronically transmitting information.

We used to do this with a phone, so some of you may not know what it is, but

these words are pronounced with open vowels.

The embarrassing mistake here is that sometimes people don't open their mouth wide enough and then they say the word.

We do not want to say that because that is very embarrassing because that is a vulgar swear word in the US So to say these words correctly and to avoid that mistake, let's think about the vowels again.

We're going to start with the F in each of these words.

Gently bite the inside or the outside of the bottom lip.

And we're going to end these words with the Ks for the K.

Tip of the tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled high up.

So you can see the back of my tongue is up, tip of my tongue is low.

And then I flatten out with the S. Put it all together.

Now, some of you may be asking, what about this word here?

Sometimes people will pronounce these two words exactly the same fact.

People will drop the T and say facts as well.

So you may be curious about that and pronounce it the same way.

The scientist will fax his report about the fox to the zoo.

I know people are going to notice the difference.

If you did, please share it with a friend.

And if you have made any embarrassing mistakes, please share them so that I can teach everyone out there how to avoid that embarrassment.

So thank you so much for being here, everyone.

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