Learn how to pronounce the words MAZE & MAIZE with this American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson. These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way.
Definitions:
Definitions: MAIZE is corn, a yellow color, or a grass.
MAZE is a confusing network of passages.
Pronunciation:
These words are pronounced MAZ or /meɪz/.
Sentence:
Please had me the maize colored book so I can finish my maze.
This may be helpful:
HOMOPHONES – words spelled differently but pronounced the same
Transcript:
Hey y’all!
Jennifer from Tarle speech with your pronunciation your two for Tuesday homophone lesson.
Two words, two different spellings, two different meanings, pronounced exactly the same way- only one way!
Our words today, this is a request, these are not super common words.
We have maize which is corn, a yellow color, um or, a grass and
maze, which is the more common word, a confusing network of passages
Let’s look at our words. All right, so to say these words correctly, we’re going to start with that m sound. Lips together, air moves out of your nose.
Then we’re going to move to that long a sound, and to say that long a sound, open your mouth in a wide circle, tip of the tongue is down, back of the tongue is pulled high up. Then move to a smile and your tongue will move to high and flat in your mouth. a a a
Then we’re going to end with that z: z. To do this, the tip of your tongue is behind your top front teeth. The tip can be either pointing down or just behind your top teeth. The key is do not touch your teeth. Your voice box is on and moving.
Someone asked recently, um, should my whole mouth be vibrating? And my mouth is vibrating when I say the sound. So that is okay let’s put this all together:
maize maze maze maze maze maze
And now for a sentence:
Please hand me the maize colored book so I can finish my maze.
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