‘Referee’ and four other common words with tricky syllables

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A syllable is one of the elements that the English Language teacher often first introduces to pupils or students.

As a result, many learners usually know what it means and they are able to accordingly break words into segments. As a reminder, a syllable is a segment of a word containing a vowel sound, or a single unit of speech – which can be a whole word or a part of it – usually containing a vowel. This means that when a syllable combines with another one – or more – it yields a word, although there are many one-word syllables like be, king, shout and even the indefinite article, a.

I hope you can provide more examples, including words with more syllables – like agricultural and idiosyncrasies. As relatively easy as the concept is, there are, however, certain words with rather tricky syllabic structures. Because they are so slippery, many of us mispronounce them, as a good knowledge of the syllabic components of a word helps in mastering its spelling as well as in properly articulating it. The about five terms I am treating today are those that have more than the number of syllables that many erroneously attribute to them when they are speaking.

This is wrong because there are three syllables in the word. It is REF-ER-EE, not REF-REE. So, next time you need to refer to it, do not swallow the middle syllable. One thing is even funny about its pronunciation: the primary stress is on the last syllable: ref-er-EE, with the secondary on the first.

 

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