How do you say this word adult?
Why is adult pronounced differently?
In the word “adult,” American speakers typically place the strong stress on the second syllable in their pronunciation, so naturally the “ah” of the first syllable tends to collapse to an “uh” in everyday speech. This indeterminate syllable, the “uh” sound you refer to, is called a schwa.
Is the H silent in human?
H is silent in many English words, for various reasons. Not all such words that have come into English from French still have a silent h, however. Over the centuries we have come to pronounce the h in words like horrible, hospital, host, human, and humour.
How do we pronounce 2020?
You’d say: twenty twenty. The second is to say: two thousand and twenty. Here you have to use “and”, but it’s pronounced very softly.