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Good afternoon!
Well, I am Carla and I'm studing english at a teaching course. I have to do an assigment but I can not find any information. And I wonder if you can help a bit.
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This assigment is about phonetics and pronunciation, and the things I find difficult to do are:
alternative pronunciation for the suffix - able because most for words with this suffix are pronounced with schwa.
Thanks!!
I'm look forward to hearing from you.!
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List of English suffixes and prefixes with pronunciation
-able or -ible?
-able, -ible. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
From -ible - Wiktionary
Usage notes
In general, forms derived from Latin verbs of the second, third, and fourth conjugations take -ible, as well as a few words whose roots end in a soft c or g. All other words take -able, particularly words from the Latin first conjugation, words that evolved through French, and words from Anglo-Saxon.
Fowler, in his English Usage, recommends using -ible for simplicity in spelling with any verb whose root ends in a soft c or g (such as changible vs. changeable), but this recommendation has generally not been followed.