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āI had a joke about my projectā¦ but I didnāt want to project it too early.ā
And yesā¦ thereās a real pronunciation lesson inside it.
In English, project changes pronunciation depending on whether itās a noun or a verb:
project (noun) = /ĖprÉdŹekt/Example: Iām working on a new project.
project (verb) = /prÉĖdŹekt/Example: You need to project your voice.
So the spelling stays the same, but the stress changes.
Thatās one of the reasons pronunciation matters so much: sometimes itās not the letters that changeā¦ itās the stress, and that changes the whole word.
A lot of learners focus only on spelling, but English is full of words like this.
Have you noticed other words that change pronunciation like this?
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