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'Quick notice' is wrong, find out the right thing. Find out how to pronounce Edinburgh, chocolate, comfortable, manoeuvre and Britain.

Today's class will be quite snappy because I need to go take a cup of tea with the Duke of Edinburgh. *winks*

So,  let's get down to brass tacks.

Maneuver(used by Americans) is spelt  #MANOEUVRE  by Britons. So,  Nigerians,   I guess you know your spelling now. We do everything British... LOL

It is not pronounced as  (manova) neither is it pronounced as (manovre).

It is correctly pronounced as (ma'nu:va) where 'a' represents the schwa sound.

/ məˈnuːvə/

Yesterday,  as I read my news,  I saw 'quit notice'. After I finished reading that part,  I felt mortified.  I felt like I made a big mistake. I thought it was a typographical error .

Early this morning,  I saw Bolaji Oke post.  It reads
"Nigerians,  it is not quick notice,  rather it is #QUIT NOTICE.

I flew to Google. I surfed  and couldn't find 'Quick notice '.

I guess you probably know this along time ago.  Anyway,  we all live to learn. I learnt the correct one just this morning. I haven't been served a 'quit notice ' . Not yet.  Actually it is one of the many law parlance we get to read  frequently from lawyers in Nigeria .  I am just wondering why we loved quick notice better.

Let's move on.

Britain/Briton.

Please they have the same pronunciation.
It's funny when people  call Briton as /briTON/ or /BRIton/ with the sound of 'tomtom' in their mouth.

Briton /ˈbrɪtn/

Britain is not pronounced /briTEN/

It is still pronounced /ˈbrɪtn/

For you to understand,  just pronounce  it the way you'd pronounce 'written '
(britn) ...

Does it now make sense?

Finally.

Chocolate is pronounced /ˈtʃɒklət/ or
/ ˈtʃɒklIt/

Like this (choklit)

Comfortable
is  pronounced  as
/'kʌmftəbl/

Not komfoteble. Remember to pronounce /ft/ without an intervening vowel sound that is not the schwa.  Only the schwa can be between /f/ and /t/.

I will give you the correct pronunciation in the audio class.

Time to go and take tea with the Duke of Edinburgh, Scotland.

(edinbara) is the way to pronounce it. 'a'is schwa in this context.  My Igbo brothers will just go and call it (edi mbara) ...LMAO.  I will pronounce it well in my audio class.

Edinburgh is not pronounced as /edinbo/ or /edinbog/.

Here is the IPA translation.

/ˈedɪnbərə/

The class with King Ifey is done and dusted.

Toodle oo."

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