🤔 PLUMBER
Are you saying this word wrong?
A lot of English learners make this mistake, but it’s easy to fix.
In American English, there are a lot of words which have silent letters, like the B in plumber.
We say: PLUM-mer
It’s not: Plum-ber
It’s PLUM-mer
The B is silent: PLUM-mer
And the stress is on the first syllable: PLUM-mer
* Jack called a PLUM-mer
* My neighbor is a PLUM-mer
* It’s hard to find good PLUM-mer these days
Let’s practice together. I’ll say blue. You say green.
* PLUM-mer
* Jack called a PLUM-mer
* My neighbor is a PLUM-mer
* It’s hard to find good PLUM-mer these days
Why not write your example with PLUMBER in the comments.
Thanks for watching, and until next time, keep learning and keep it cool.
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