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Is it 'Chicken change'? How do you pronounce 'adjacent'?

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chicken change?

No dear, it is called

'Chicken feed'.

But wait a minute.  It is a slangy expression.  Perhaps you might just use it  only with friends in an informal way.

Chicken feed means a paltry sum of money. E.g for a year, I received chicken feed from the company I work for.

Chicken Change is 'UnEnglish '

Finally.

Adjacent is pronounced as

(aJEisnt)

Atabikwana ire biko(don't bite your tongue please)LOL.

Here is the phonetic transcription

/əˈdʒeɪs(ə)nt/

Do well to stick to it okay?  Especially those mathematicians.
Sorry,  I wasn't able to do the audio class last night.  I kipped before it was 10. Sorry guys.

Finally,  the class with King Ifey is done and dusted.  Get my projector someone and please inform your maths teacher that the word is aJEIsnt not AAjasent.

*leaves The class,  then looks in through the window*

Oh by the way,  'to kip' is a typical British way of saying 'to sleep'. See you later

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