Hi, students.
I hope you're well.
In this lesson, we're going to learn about one word--
up here-- which has four different pronunciations.
So let's find out how you pronounce it.
The way you pronounce this word says something about you
in terms of your social class.
You probably didn't know that.
So based on your pronunciation of this word--
say aloud for me now--
we're going to find out if you are posh, if you're
at the top of the social scale.
If you are one of the common people, if your speech is
like that of the common man.
We might find out that you're somewhere in the middle,
or perhaps you're American.
So we'll go through the four pronunciations
and you'll find out.
And then, in the second part of the lesson,
we're going to learn similar words that
end with this spelling pattern.
So they can be pronounced in a few different ways.
OK, let's get started.
So I will say the first word for you.
Garage /ˈgær.ɑːʒ/.
Can you say it for me now?
Garage /ˈgær.ɑːʒ/.
The last sound in here is a very French sounding phoneme, ʒ, ʒ.
A quick demonstration of how to pronounce it.
Make a "d" sound, d, d, d d.
And that spot where your tongue touches, leave a gap
and let the air travel as your vocal cords vibrate--
ʒ, ʒ, ʒ.
It's not a sound made by touching there,
but it's in a similar place.
You've got to leave a gap, "ʒ."
Say it with me again.
Garage /ˈgær.ɑːʒ/, garage /ˈgær.ɑːʒ/.
Now, if you pronounce a word like that, what social class
does it reveal about you?
Have a think about it and choose one of those
from the cloud, the bubble, you think it is.
I'll write it in.
This is the posh pronunciation of the word.
OK, let's do the second one.
Garage /ˈgær.ɑːʤ/, garage /ˈgær.ɑːʤ/, garage /ˈgær.ɑːʤ/.
Hopefully the microphone is sensitive enough
to pick up the sound difference, because if we
have a look here the IPA, it's very, very, very similar.
The difference is the last phoneme, which in this case
is a /ʤ/ like in my name, Jade /ˈʤeɪd/.
But because it's at the end of a word here,
it's not as strong as sounds at the beginning.
So I say Jade, but here is /ɑːʤ/
/ɑːʤ/
Garage /ˈgær.ɑːʤ/.
This phoneme here, like in my name,
if you have a look at the symbols
is made up of two symbols.
So it begins pretty much like a /d/, and it ends like a /ʒ/
/ʤ ʤ/
We can also think of it as a combination of the two sounds.
So, choose now the social class of pronouncing this word
with the final /ʤ/ like that.
I would say this one is, let's just say, in the middle.
The third pronunciation now.
Garage /ˈgær.ɪʤ/.
We're getting a little bit different now,
because we've got a different vowel here.
The last sound in the word is /ɪʤ/
Garage /ˈgær.ɪʤ/.
Where's the petrol garage?
And this one is a speech of the common folk,
the everyday people.
And our last pronunciation here, well, of course,
is only one answer.
Garage /gəˈrɑːʒ/, garage /gəˈrɑːʒ/.
This is the American pronunciation,
although you'll probably find some British people pronounce
it that way, because we are influenced by American media.
But we know as a general rule that this
is an American pronunciation, because they
tend to put the stress on the second syllable.
Whereas the British pronunciations
put the stress on the first syllable.
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OK, we can continue now.
Let's look at the spending patterns and the pronunciation
patterns four words ending in "A-G-E," pronounced as /ɑːʒ/
/ɑːʒ/
This would be like the posh pronunciation of garage /ˈgær.ɑːʒ/.
Garage /ˈgær.ɑːʒ/.
OK.
Let's say the words together.
Some of them will have different pronunciations,
but this is the pronunciation you'll
find in most dictionaries.
We'll say them together.
Massage, massage.
Mirage, mirage.
Camouflage, camouflage.
Sabotage, sabotage.
Espionage, espionage.
OK.
A few comments about these words.
Massage is where you go when your body is aching
and you get your body pressed and rubbed,
so that you feel better.
A mirage is something that you see in the desert.
You think you see water there, but it's not really there.
It's a trick of the weather patterns.
Camouflage is what people in the army
wear to hide from the enemy.
Sabotage is what you do to an enemy.
So you spoil their equipment.
You damage their equipment, you create an explosion,
you blow up their factory, that kind of thing.
Because you are trying to get advantage over your enemy.
And the last one, espionage.
This is the activity of spying.
Let's bring it together, so it sticks in your mind a bit.
The last three have a military association,
as do many French words that have entered English.
OK.
Let's look at the next category.
This time, "A-G-E" is pronounced /ɪʤ/.
This is weird.
We don't expect words spelt "A-G-E" to have a "i"
sound in... /ɪʤ/ /ɪʤ/.
My students commonly mispronounce these words.
Because of this spending pattern,
they don't know it's pronounced /ɪʤ/.
Always have to teach them that.
Let's say this together.
Message, message.
I have to write that in.
You can't see the spelling, it came off.
Message, send a text message.
Village, village.
A sleepy village.
Garbage, garbage.
The garbage bin is in the garden.
Average, average.
I live on an average street.
Damage, damage.
There is damage caused to my car in the garage.
Oh, OK.
So I gave you a clue there about my natural pronunciation
of that word.
I'm not going to say anymore.
And the last pronunciation here is "A-G-E," is /eɪʤ/.
And it's a bit different.
This is a good way to show you that the same spending
patterns isn't always going to be pronounced in the same way.
Look at these short words we've got.
We've got age, page, rage, stage, gauge, cage.
All of them end in a /ʤ/ sound.
There's one tricky word on here, really it's this one.
Gauge.
This is a kind of measuring device, such as a fuel
gauge in a car, which will tell you
how much petrol you have got left.
Before you need to go to the--
you say it, choose your pronunciation--
before you have to go to that place.
OK.
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Bye.