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As a non-native speaker: how is it pronounced differently?

• barrkel 3y ago
  To house is pronounced "to howz", house is pronounced "howce".
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• KMnO4 3y ago
  You pronounce house like “mouse”, but “to house” is pronounced like “hows”, as in “how’s it going?”.
  • dylan604 3y ago
    And Houston is only pronounced like house if you're in NY
    • justinator 3y ago
      And not Who-ston? - or is it, Hue-ston?
      • dylan604 3y ago
        Hue's ton. It's a unit of weight. House-ton, we have a problem. --Jim Lovell House-ton, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. --Neil Armstrong I feel like I'm in some alternate universe ala PK Dick where things are the same with slight twists. This one is where odd pronunciations are the norm. Like going to the Rodeo to see the cattle.
    • cantSpellSober 3y ago
      Or in Scotland, and the last syllable is still pronounced differently (ton instead of tun).
  • pests 3y ago
    To me, every instance of "house" in the above sentence sound the exact same and perfect ryhme with mouse. Neiher "house" or "to house" sounds like "hows". I'm in the Southeastern Michigan area if that explains anything. edit: Using barrkel's comparison in a sibling thread - "house" and "to house" are both howce and "hows" is "howz". edit2: Further thinking leads me to conclude I have heard others use "howz" for "to house" around me and if I were speaking quickly that may be how I would say it. Just reading those sentences to myself internally at my own speed uses the howce.
    • whycome 3y ago
      How do you say "we need to house new immigrants"? How do you pronounce "department of housing and urban development"?
      • arcanemachiner 3y ago
        Howz and howzing.
      • codetrotter 3y ago
        We need to mouse new immigrants Department of mousing and urban development
        • justinator 3y ago
          You're going to hate this, but the noun and verb form of mouse are pronounced the same, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/mouse_1 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/mouse_2 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
      • pests 3y ago
        "Housing" esposes more of the howz sound. The first is just howce. Thinking about this more... I just realized something. I struggled with a lisp and speech therapy in grade school. I distinctly remember a lesson where I was being instructed on how certain words ending in "s" actually sound like "z" like "apples" and I was pronouncing it without the z. I am thinking this may just be related to that.
• kevin_b_er 3y ago
  The 's' is voiced in the verb and voiceless in the noun, at least in my midland accent, which is probably closer to American TV's accents. By 'voiced', I mean your vocal chords vibrate and make a sound for it. But the lip/teeth/tongue are the same.* There are several noun/verb words where the pronunciation changes and lots where the stress changes. Another pronunciation change example that I can think of right now is 'close': The noun and the verb do the same thing with final sound. The voiced 's' is a 'z' sound. And English sadly doesn't use a different letter here. *In simple terms. I think these form an identical mouth shape, but there's probably a dialect where it doesn't. And some bizarre cases where it doesn't. Because English. And judging from another comment from someone from Michigan, they say both the same?? Also 'housing' for me uses a voiced s, but I think I've heard 'housing' both ways.
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