The word say has vowel /eɪ/, but the words says and said have vowel /ɛ/ as in red tent. Learn more about vowel /ɛ/ in this video:
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When we use "a" as a word in English, as in a word or a friend, we pronounce it as "uh," vowel schwa /ə/.
Letter "A" is pronounced as "ay," /eɪ/, with a long stretched vowel. In words, the letter a can represent many different vowel sounds. Here are some rules for the most common pronunciations of letter A:
See more about spelling rules for vowels here. In other contexts, letter A can represent many other vowel sounds. Learn even more about letter sounds vs. spelling, and how to pronounce all of the letters and sounds in our online course, the Sounds of American English. Have you noticed? Americans don't really say the "t" sound in the middle of words like water, better, and matter. We use what's called a "flap t" in these words. It sounds more like a d.
For the month of May, we're going to do some Spring Cleaning, by helping you clean up some common errors which occur on everyday words because of accent patterns. Check out our new videos, every day in May, and see how much your can improve your speech in the month of May!
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