How do you pronounce (of) in Canada, USA, Britain and Australia?

English as a Second Language Listening, speaking, pronunciation and accent
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Hello ,

Please tell me what are the all possible methods in pronouncing (of) in all English accents in the world ? ( USA,Canada,Britain and Australia )

as for me I’m usually pronounce it as ( u’v ) and ( o’v ).

and what do you called this ( /bæt/ ) I’m usually see it in front every word. used to pronounce the words.

Thank you

2

It’s impossible to enumerate all the possible ways that a certain word is pronounced in all dialects of English. There are hundreds of dialects.

The most common way “of” is pronounced in English is [ə].

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Hi all,

I am practicing some consonant sounds /r/, /rl/, /rd/, /rld/ in car, girl, word and world.
Could you please help me post an audio voice message that I can imitate? Could you also please show me a bit of explanation that we can make those sounds.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
JLTS

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Thank you Jamie.
But can you clear more the most often pronunciation ?

The problem in the letter ( f ) in this word ( of ). Is ( v ) most common or ( f ) ?

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Most commonly, in normal speech, we don’t pronounce the [f] and all. We say “a glass [ə] water” or “the president [ə] the United States”, for example. It’s pronounced [ə] before a consonant in ordinary speech.

When we are reading the word by itself, or we are saying the word before a vowel, we pronounce the F as [v].

The F is never pronounced as [f] in “of”.

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Excellent.
Can you tell me what do you call this type of words (( /bæt/ ) ?

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Hi everyone,

@ Mohammadata :

The explanation by Jamie is quite thorough. Although, if you are interested in an audio message on this issue, you can find it here.

As for the word [bat] /bæt/, I think that you are not truly asking about the meaning or semantic properties (i.e: Noun, countable) of the word itself. If you you are, then there are many good dictionaries out there, ready for you to use.

However, perhaps, you are referring to the transcription /æ/ in the word? If you are, then vowels such as /æ/ are known as diphtongs. A diphtong is a union of two vowel sounds. For more on this matter, I believe that Jamie is far more elligible and competent than I to produce the explanation for you.

Alan has made an excellent post on the pronounciation of the diphtong /æ/ in the word [bat] /bæt/ in this topic.

@ Jamie (K) :

If it is not too much of a trouble for you, would you kindly comment and make corrections on the post concerning voiced and voiceless vowels aforementioned in this post? I made quite a lengthy comment and I fear that the post can be misleading if not well checked by an expert such as you. I would be very grateful if you would do this.

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Thank you for your detailed reply.
Dear sir , I am meaning what do you call these voice reading words ?
Is these special term for them ?
e.g. Suppose I want to ask someone about the voice part of suh word.
just like : Excuse me friend what is the… of this word ( What ) ?

So , I want the word which I place dots instead of it in the last sentence.
Thank you

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Hello Mohammadata,

It is a bit hard to understand you but I think what you are concerning is the International Phonetics Alphabet transcription of a word. So, the transcription of WHAT is /wɔt/.

I hope my response makes sense to you.
Thank you and regards,
JLTS