question is how do I pronounce the word seat a chair sit which is to rest your

bottom on the chair sheet which is a rectangular piece of paper or something

that you put on the bed and shit which is poop yes this is an actual question

it's a very embarrassing mistake so let's go ahead and jump right in and

take a look at these words okay so the two big things that we're going to talk

about today are the long e versus the short ih sound lots of confusion with these

sounds the difference here is the e is very tense your lips are very tense

and they are smiling E when you do this e your tongue is going to be very high

and very flat in your mouth and it's going to be behind your front teeth but

not touching anything when you relax your lips from the e to the ih you can

see that mouth opens slightly when it relaxes when it relaxes what is going to

happen is your tongue is going to pop down just a little tiny bit and your

tongue is still going to be behind your teeth but it's going to be more at sort

of this bottom line of your teeth so it's going to be e ih e ih e ih and then

the second difference with these words is going to be the S sound and to do

that you're going to kind of have smiling lips and the tip of the tongue

is either going to be behind your top front teeth or pointed down to the

bottom of your mouth and it is not touching your teeth and that's going to

allow the air to move out of your mouth this S sound is opposed to the SH sound

which is one sound spelled with two letters and what you're going to do for

this sound is round your lips

Shh shhh and when you round your lips your tongue should be flat and in the middle

of your mouth and again it is not touching your teeth at all so we have

sssss and shhhh ssss shhhh and then let's look at the vowels again e ih e ih okay let's put that all

together so word number one we have seat seat seat word number two sit sit sit

and then we're moving down here to sheet sheet sheet and lastly shit-shit-shit

actually kind of funny I have a hard time saying that without smiling

so let's contrast those seat sit sheet shit seat sit sheet shit alright and now

let's hear my sentence if you were going to take a shit be sure you have a sheet

of toilet paper before you sit on the toilet seat give it a try I know people

will notice a difference and you will no longer be embarrassed if you say one of

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