Glizdka
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- Apr 13, 2019
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I frequently (more often than not) hear my fellow Polish people pronounce continuous like how I would expect them to pronounce continues. I'm referring to the additional syllable in /kəntɪnjuəs/ that I wouldn't expect to hear in continues.
I thought it was just a common learner error, caused by the inability to replicate and/or distinguish /uə/ by beginners, but today I heard something interesting from an English teacher (non-native speaker). She said that it's similar to potato, either, and temperature - it has alternative pronunciations. It's fine to pronounce both continues and continuous the same way.
I doubt it; it doesn't make sense. Continues (v.) and continuous (adj.) are different parts of speech, and if their pronunciation was the same, that would be really confusing. Besides, what would be the reason for a difference in spelling? I don't know what to think. As an English teacher, she definitely uses the word continuous (for obvious reasons) disproportionately more often than an average glizdka does, so she must know what she's talking about, right?
If what she said is true, and continues and continuous can be pronounced the same, how does it affect the pronunciation of other, similarily sounding words, such as ambiguous?
I thought it was just a common learner error, caused by the inability to replicate and/or distinguish /uə/ by beginners, but today I heard something interesting from an English teacher (non-native speaker). She said that it's similar to potato, either, and temperature - it has alternative pronunciations. It's fine to pronounce both continues and continuous the same way.
I doubt it; it doesn't make sense. Continues (v.) and continuous (adj.) are different parts of speech, and if their pronunciation was the same, that would be really confusing. Besides, what would be the reason for a difference in spelling? I don't know what to think. As an English teacher, she definitely uses the word continuous (for obvious reasons) disproportionately more often than an average glizdka does, so she must know what she's talking about, right?
If what she said is true, and continues and continuous can be pronounced the same, how does it affect the pronunciation of other, similarily sounding words, such as ambiguous?