A short YouTube pronunciation guide by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to say the word "irrelevant." The speaker breaks the word into phonetic segments, indicates primary stress on the second syllable ("red" vowel), gives articulatory advice (jaw drop, r, l, schwa, final t realization), and offers alternate acceptably popped t-final pronunciations.
How to pronounce irrelevant. Irrelevant. That's a very relevant question for some of you. You start with the e as in sit, not. So make sure your jaw is a bit dropped. Jaw is not tight. Then an r sound. Then the e is in red. That's the primary stress. So it's going to be longer, louder, higher in pitch. Ira. And then we have L, an l sound, a schwa l, l, l. And then you wrap it up with vent, a v sound, another schwa nt vent. Now the t here can be a hel t, which means you may not really hear it. And a brat stop of n makes it a lt. All right? That's how it actually sounds. Irrelevant. But you can also pop the t at the end. That's not a problem at all. Irrelevant. Irrelevant. Clarity over accuracy. Okay.
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