Hi there. As a child I always use to hear jokes about people, who cannot pronounce the
“P” and the “B” correctly. Let me share you a joke. How will someone, who does
not know the difference between the P and the B cross the road? The answer is symboly.
Those who understood the joke keep smiling and those who did not; I will explain this
to you later. Hi my name is Emmelda and today I will be discussing the difference between
the “P” and the “B”. When I was in Spain, I met a guy through a common friend
and it was in a get-together, so after a while as a night too drunk up, he said lets go to
Baba Jones. I thought Oh! Probably it’s a copy of the famous chain of restaurants
called the Papa Jones. So we drove along and I finally understood that he actually meant
Papa Jones. So I asked him in a conversation, I asked him so what’s up with the “P”
and the “B” and he said you see Emmelda in our language we don’t have a different
P or B, because the mouth movement is the same, P, B same, that got in trigging and
I was thinking, so what is the difference between “P” and the “B” and how would
you explain it to someone? Did my research and then revelation. Let’s get started with
the basic sound “B” is a voice sound. What do you mean by voice? Touch your throat
and while you say “B”, B, you hear a vibration here B, however “P” is an unvoiced consonant.
For example, it says P. When we say P there’s so much gush of air from your mouth. You actually
build up air in your mouth, when you close it. P, take a look at this. Keep your hand
in front of your mouth “P”, you’ll feel the air rushing through your fingers “P”,
“B”, you don’t feel the air P, B. So there is slight rather a very prominent difference
between P and the B. Now let’s see how these two alphabets when they come in different
words, how are they pronounced? The first word we have is Bat as in bat, so its bat,
however if you use, if you replace this with P it becomes Pat, as in your patting the board
or patting yourself, so its bat, pat repeat one more time, bat, pat. B, so it’s B. If
you could feel the vibration B. The B and the P, the funny part is you keep your mouth
as if you’re smiling B, P. So its B, feel the vibration P, feel the air, P, B, no air
but there’s vibration, bin, bin,bin. This one pin, pin, you will feel the air, but no
vibration, pin, bin, born as in a baby is born or you’re born on a particular date,
so its born, porn. My dear guy friends please, I’m just talking about the sounds, don’t
think weird or don’t think stupid. It’s just porn. One is the adult movies that we
can watch for entertainment. The other one is pawn for those who don’t know the meaning
of pawn, it is something that if you have an item and you want money, you will just
give someone and exchange for money, but for a short period of time. So its porn, pawn,
born. Bush as in President Bush, you know the ex-president of United States, bush, bush,
push, push. You can’t say let me bush you, it doesn’t really sound well, so its bush
and push. Abort, abort, now these are the words I’m gonna talk about where the B comes
in the middle of the word, so its abort, abort. Again no air but vibration, however look at
this apart, apart, you are actually closing your mouth, trying to build the air ap, ap.
There’s no air in your mouth by now, but when you say part the air comes out of your
mouth apart, apart. So its abort no air, abort vibration, apart, apart, you still feel the
air, Cubical, cubical is a small room or a small area which is covered and you really
don’t have a lot of space there, so its cubical, cubical, couple, couple. You still
have the air, however compared to the words which you begin with this has lesser air.
Couple, cubical and couple are spelt like this, sorry pronounced like this, its “Q”,
it’s not seubical, its cubical, couple, couple, fumble. Fumble is when you’re not
sure and you start stammering, you start doing mistake or you’re fumbling. So its fumble
specially this happens specially if you are going for an interview and you are not sure
what to say, so you start fumbling. Flapper, flapper is a flat board through which you
keep patting. For example, if you are swimming, you have those flapper shoes when you are
swimming, you flap your legs. So Its flapper, flapper, habit, habit. The air is in the beginning
of the word habit. You don’t say habet or habith, it’s not habith, habit. Happy, now
notice this, here and here there is no air habit, no air, happy, you don’t really have
that air, when you’re talking happy. So there are certain areas, where you have to
be little conscious of how are you pronouncing the word. You don’t say happie, it’s not
happie, but happy, happy. I am very happy for you, I hope you’re happy now, happy.
The next is the animal Zebra, zebra. Here since there are two consonants, even before
you could finish the B, you already start the R sound, zebra, zebra, zipper, zipper,
zipper again same as the happy, probably it’s a coincidence. I’m not, I cannot say it’s
a rule that the moment you have two “P’s there is no air, no it’s not like that,
English has lot of rules, but it has lot of exceptions as well. So it’s happy, zipper,
zebra. We have the next as Cub, cub, cup as in a tea cup, dab, dab means when you take
a towel and dab yourself dry, dab, these words are, if you notice the B comes at the end,
so we’ll try to understand how B is pronounced or P is pronounced, when it comes at the end.
Cup, cub, cup. Again there is hardly any air here cup, cup, cub, cup, dab, dip, lab, lap,
lap. The last one that we have is mob, mob, mop. The only thing that you have to understand
is the moment you have words which end with P and if that word is followed by other few
words or especially the ones which start with avowel, you don’t aspirate it or you don’t
bring so much air, you don’t say I have cupatty, you don’t say cupatty. May I have
a cupatty or may I have a cup of tea, so there is not so much air. Now coming back to my
joke, which I was sharing at the beginning of the video is basically the person says,
he actually just wanted to cross the road simply, but because he does not know the meaning.
Probably now he is going to cross the road symboly, basically he will be looking at the
symbols and then cross the road, so that’s the funny joke. A lot of people don’t get
it at the first time; it’s only those who are quite aware of the difference between
P and the B, they will get at the first time. So I hope you enjoyed my lesson, I will be
coming back with new lessons. Until I come back stay healthy, be beautiful and have fun
learning English.