Bus or boss?

26 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Short spoken explanation by Hadar Shemesh comparing English vowel/consonant pronunciation pairs (e.g., color/collar, luck/lock, bus/boss). The speaker demonstrates pronunciation differences for 'bus' versus 'boss', describing articulatory features (tongue/root position, mouth opening, lip rounding) and gives example phrases.

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What is the difference between color and collar or luck and lock? And bus and boss. Bus. Small, sharp, more closed, neutral, closer to an sound. Bus. Bus. Let's take the bus. Boss. My boss just called me Ba. It's closer to the back of the mouth. You drop your tongue, you drop the root of the tongue and the voice resonates in the back. Also your mouth opens more and the lips round just a bit, not too much. Ah. Office job, Father, Boss. Ah.