Pronunciation: Discover

It is a common error to pronounce discover with a long o sound. The word ‘over’ does have a long o sound like in the word ‘oh’ . But the first vowel in the word ‘discover’ has a soft sound like the ‘u’ in the words ‘love’ an ‘of’.

You can listen to the pronunciation at www.m-w.com.

Similarly another, cover, other, brother, hover all have the short vowel sound heard in ‘up’ .

Clover and Rover have a long o sound like in the word ‘over’.

I hope you like it!

Mary from USA

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8.jpg Autora: I'm Mary Ziller. I tutor ESL at the IHM Lteracy Center in Philadelphia. I lived a year in Brazil where I became certified to teach English as a Foreign language. Outros textos da autora.

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