It is Jennifer from Tarle speech with  your two for Tuesday homophone lesson.

Today you've got double bonus. It's  four for Tuesday. We have four words  

that are pronounced exactly the same way.

We have: carrot the orange vegetable 

caret a mark showing where a word  or a letter should be inserted 

carat a unit of weight for gemstones and karat a unit of weight for gold

I didn't even know those last two were different.  My mistake there - learned something new.

So to say these words correctly, we're going  to have two syllables or two beats. care ut

Let's start with that care. To say  this you're going to start with the k:  

tip of the tongue is down  back of the tongue is pulled  

way high up. Then we are going to move to the  air and to do this your tongue is going to be in  

pretty much the same spot. Tip of the tongue  is down, back of the tongue is pulled high up,  

and then we're going to move to the er by moving  the lips to a square tense shape. And as you  

do that your tongue is just going to kind of go  along for the ride and move as your lips closed.

Let's put that all together: care care care

And then for the ut we're going to have  that super short uh sound. Relaxed lips,  

relaxed mouth, tongue is just flat and  relaxed in the middle of the mouth and  

then we're going to touch the tip of the tongue  to the back of the top front teeth for that t.

care ut carrot carrot carrot

You may hear a little less air puff out on  that t when people are using these words  

just in a normal sentence and that's called that  unreleased t. So you might hear that carrot and  

it just sounds like a little short t  there at the end with no puff of air.

So let's try those words again carrot carrot carrot 

and now with the puff of air carrot carrot carrot

And for a sentence:

The proofreader added a caret before the word  

carrot while she wore a one karat  gold ring with a 2 carat diamond.

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Give it a try people are going  to notice the difference!

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Thanks so much everyone have a great week!