a very long list of words today how do you pronounce majority identity activity

curiosity humidity ability and stability lots of words we're going to tackle this

by looking at that suffix the I T Y suffix Iactually did a video on this last

year and so when you see the suffix ity you're going to say Adee Adee short uh

sound and then D that de syllable is going to be longer so again we're going

to say Adee what gets confusing for people

is in the longer words your stress is going to shift to the syllable right

before the uh so you're going to have majority identity activity curiosity and

humidity when we have this I L ity which is a common spelling pattern that we see

in words you are going to stress the word bill so we're gonna have a schwa bill

schwa D a Bill adee a bill uh Dee so we have ability and stability so let's try

all those words majority identity activity curiosity humidity ability and

stability so give it a try people are going to notice the difference if you

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