two words today: warrior a strong person or a fighter and worrier stressed or an

anxious person. Let's go ahead and take a look at our words. We have warrior and

worrier. So I'm going to give you the three syllable pronunciations first and

then I'm going to give you an option for warrior if you just want to say two

syllables. Let's start with the endings so both of these words are going

to end with E and then er so to do this you're going to say the e sound by

smiling and make that vowel nice and long. e And then move to the er and to

do this you are going to have square tense lips,

tip of your tongue is going to be either pointed down or flipped back, just don't

touch your teeth and don't let that tongue move. Make sure your lips are nice

and tense and that will avoid you from saying uh. All right so e-er e-er e-er

Now what's the difference at the beginning, for warrior we are going to

start with war and to do that you're going to have puckered lips for that W

sound. And then you're going to move to the or by pulling the lips back into

that square tense shape. war war war For worrier we are going to say were and to

do that again you are going to pull your lips back but this is going to be a

little bit shorter. right. So we have war and were war and were. Another difference

is my lips are more puckered for the war and they are less puckered for the word

were were war were war were. Let's put that all

together warrior warrior warrior worrier worrier worrier. I do hear some people

say warrior and that is an acceptable pronunciation. So that's an option as

well so again we have warrior and worrier and now in a sentence. To be more

courageous the worrier envisioned herself as a warrior. So to be more

courageous the worrier envisioned herself as a warrior. Give it a try

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