It started out sluggish until it finally picked up some steam

Thank you for your questions guys!

Great job, everyone. Thanks to @Alex Understated, @Yanan Wang, @Rory Yuan, @Shirley Lee, @Kiki Jiang, and @Qingping Jiang for your tricky questions and focused practice today! P.S.: @Yanan Wang I understand your doubts about my answer today -- I probably would too 😊 Let’s ask Coach Shane to help us out! @Shane Peterson Example #1 (here I'm pretty sure): At the principles' level For "principles" (as in at the principles’ level), American English speakers normally do not add an extra syllable because "principles" already ends in an /z/ sound. At the principles’ level → At the PRIN-suh-pulz level Example #2 (here I'm not sure): Bill Gates' daughter How do people usually pronounce this apostrophe (’) in "Bill Gates' daughter"? Should we add a syllable like Gates’ → GAYTS-iz? YouGlish found this video (see attached), and there's no extra syllable added. See you next time!

Thank You Everyone for joining! ------------- AGC @Shane Peterson