How to pronounce 'Gaslighting'

9 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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Short YouTube explainer by Hadar Shemesh that defines 'gaslighting' (psychological manipulation causing someone to question their reality), notes it was Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2022, and provides a spoken, phoneme-level pronunciation walkthrough (stress on first syllable). The clip ends by prompting the viewer to write a sentence using the word.

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Merriam-Webster

Manipulating someone psychologically until they start questioning their own thoughts or their own reality.

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What is gaslighting? Gaslighting is Merriam Webster's word of the year for 2022. To gaslight someone is to manipulate someone psychologically until they start questioning their own thoughts or their own reality. What do you mean? I was mean to you? I never said those things. You're making this up. What? You're not sad. You're happy. I'm sorry if you think that I hurt you. Oh, come on. It's not that bad. Could be so much worse. You know, to pronounce gaslighting, you start with a G sound. Then it's the A as in cat ga ga. And then it's an S sound. Gas. Then you connect the S to the l gas. And then it's the I as in my gas lie. Then we have a flap T and the ing ring. Gaslighting. This stress is on the first syllable. Gaslighting. Gaslighting. Write a sentence with the word gaslighting.