How to pronounce JEWELRY

11 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Short transcript excerpt of a YouTube video by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to pronounce the word "jewelry." The speaker breaks the word into phonetic parts ("jewel" + "ry"), describes vowel quality (oo as in 'food'), and notes the dark L and optional schwa.

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Yes, it is hard. There is like, an L and there's a W in the spelling. And it's like. Do you even need to pronounce it? So let's break it down. The first part is jewel. Jewel. It's a J sound. Then the oo, as in food round your lips. Jew. And then it's a dark L. Jewel. Some people might even break it down into two parts. Jewel. Jewel with a schwa. L. But the easiest way to say it is just jewel and then re. Jewelry.