Learn how to pronounce the words WEED & WE’D with this American English Homophone Pronunciation Lesson. These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way.
Definitions:
A weed is a wild, unwanted, invasive plant or to remove plants.
We’d is the contraction of we had.
Pronunciation:
These words are pronounced W-long E- D or /wid/.
Sentence:
We’d like to weed. We’d get rid of all of the weeds.
This may be helpful:
HOMOPHONES – words spelled differently but pronounced the same
Transcript:
Hi everyone!
Jennifer from Tarle speech with your two for Tuesday. Our words today are spelled differently, they have different meanings, but they are pronounced the same. The words are:
weed a wild unwanted invasive plant or it can mean to remove plants
and we’d we had the contraction
So let’s give these words a try.
Three little sounds today – easy breezy!
Start with that w sound – puckered lips.
Move to that long e – smile and that tongue is nice and high and flat: e.
And then touch the tip of your tongue to the back of your top front teeth for that d sound. D Let it pop down, let the air puff out, all while your voice box is on. In fact your voice is on for this whole word
W-e-d
weed weed weed
weed weed weed
weed
And now for a sentence:
We’d like to weed, we’d get rid of all of the weeds.
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