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• Did you ever notice somebody always asks “ How do you say this word” in ENGLISH? For the first time in your life… THE UNIVERSAL RULE OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION? If your english pronunciation hasn’t changed a bit since you were sixteen, this book is the SOLUTION. Just keep your eyes open for that book containing the only rules for the english pronunciation a brazilian told the world about. Memorizing all of 400.000 sounds of the English dictionary words would you take centuries Don’t stake your English Pronunciation to the old Dictionary anymore. Fill your mind with The Universal Rule of English Pronunciation. I’d love to see my English teacher’s face when he finds my English pronunciation’s been improved. Original title in portuguese : A REGRA UNIVERSAL DA PRONÚNCIA INGLESA, printed in Brazil - copyright 2008 - Fábio Braga de Alencar. publisher EDITORA CIÊNCIA MODERNA, Rio de Janeiro. www.lcm.com..br. E-MAIL: [email protected]. Buy it now for R$ 26,40 ( US$ 15 ). Use your credit card. You never realized before how could be possible to say all of the words of an English Dictionary with no error. It is about time it got here. THIS IS A FOOL-PROOF RULE. LETTERS A . This vowel may represent an english prefix. LOOK: About, Around, Amass, Aware, Away, Afire. In this case A sounds uh. If you tear A apart, the word appears to be the same. OUT/ROUND/MASS/WARE/WAY/FIRE. A. as an indefinite article. Sounding ay or uh, depending on the speed of reading it. Fast sounds uh : He is A burglar / It A cat A . Is a latin prefix sounding ay. LOOK : Apolitical/Apetalous/Asynchronous/Amoral I . Vowel i in the end sounds igh. TEST YOURSELF: ANTHROPOPHAGi/ NUCLEi/Pi/RADIi/PAPYRi U . vowel u sounds oo after J/ L/R/S/ and ew after the other consonants. But if one consonant is ending the word or two consonants come after u, vowel u sounds uh. TEST YOURSELF: PRuDENCE/JuNIOR/JuPITER/SuPER/ILLuSION// RuBBER/PLuMBER/uS X . this consonant has two sounds. In the beginning it sounds like z of zebra. After the beginning it sounds eks. TEST YOURSELF: Xerox/Xenophobia/ Xystus////relaX/boX/anneX GROUPS you maintain the same sound in all words dIET / varIETy / anxIETy / ebrIETy / notorIETy / ubIETy( ight ) Exceptions are: MOIETY maw-yet-ee and GAIETY gay-at-ee halitOSIS / cirrhOSIS / mitOSIS / ( owe-sis ) NOTE: MITOSIS sounds my-tow-zis because when vowel O comes after I or Y, 75% of the cases letters I and Y will sound igh. IT IS NOT GREAT? IT WILL BE A CINCH TO MEMORIZE 25% THAT WAS REMAINING, ISN’T IT? EXAMPLES OF THIS RULE: MiCRO/HyPO/HORiZON/PiLOT/MyOPIA/BiOLOGY/… dAY / arrAY / bAY / strAY / hAY / mAYflower / ( ay ) SOME OF ITS EXCEPTIONS: PAPAYA( pah-pie-ah )/QUAY ( key ) continUITY / ingenUITY / congrUITY ( ooit-ee ) contigUITY/ exigUITY / annUITY (you-it-ee ) GROUP ABOVE IS DIVIDED spontanEITy / decEIT / homogenEITy / ( eet ) ( loud ) sQUAsh / QUAlity / sQUAd / QUArtz / QUAntity / ( kwaw ) deFY / magniFY / uniFY / simpliFY / ( figh ) cAEsar / tracheAE / AEdis AEgypti / antennAE / ( ee ) ( low ) CHEMistry / CHEMicals / CHEMist / ( kem ) hierARCHy / patriARCH / ARCHeology / ( ark ) DYNamite / DYNamics / ( dying ) PUTRid / PUTRify / ( pewtr ) bEE / referEE / tEEming / sEEr / scrEEn / ( ee ) ( loud ) IDEntical / IDEal / IDEntify / IDEa / ( eyed ) ( in the beginning ) desIGN / sIGN, er / malIGN / benIGN / ( ign ) ( last syllable ) imAGE / advantAGE / mortgAGE / rampAGE / ( group AGE you pronounce ij - in the end of words, over 1 syllable ) bronchITIS / arthrITIS / bursITIS / meningITIS / rhinITIS( igh-tis ) VOCal / VOCative / VOCalist / ( voek) MOVies / reMOVe / MOVement / MOVing / ( moov ) lOVE / cOVEr / dOVE / cOVErage / discOVEry / sOVEreign / ( uv ) PSalm / PSeudo / PSychology / PSeudonym ( P is unpronounced ) synONYM / anthONYM / pseudONYM / homONYM / ( group ONYM you pronounce a low in-im - words are proparoxitonics ) ORTHOGRAPHIC PLACES ( also known as SYSTEMS ) A E I O U + CONSONANT 1 + VOWELS 2,3 A - r A dio / herb A ceous / st A dium / ( ay ) E - pr E mium / m E dia / schizophr E nia / ( ee ) ( loud ) I - L I nea,r,age / v I sion / trad I tion / ( ee ) ( loud ) O - s O cial / mel O dious / my O pia ( owe ) ( long ) A E I O U + ..................AL ( IN THE END ) words are proparoxitonic anim AL / biologic AL / eletric AL / feder AL / psychologic AL group ENTAL will change the word to paroxitonic : continENTAL / instrumENTAL / enviromENTAL/ elemENTAL Forget the dictionary. THE UNIVERSAL RULE OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION will teach you to pronounce all of english words in 60 days. Rules you’ll repeat 1 million times each week, if you read 10 magazines or 5 newspapers in that period. GOOD LUCK! CONGRATULATIONS Fábio Braga de Alencar, author of THE UNIVERSAL RULE OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION

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  Actually, old chap, I think you'll find that the rules of English pronunciation are known as "RP" - Received Pronunciation - and were first formalised by Daniel Jones, Professor of phonetics at UCL, in 1917. Never mind, though. I'm sure this Brazilian chap's pamphlet is just splendid. And well done for trying, eh? That's the main thing!