The pronunciation of the letter “w” is sometimes mistakenly mixed up with the pronunciation of the letter “v”. The pronunciation of “w” is quite different.
The letter “w” has a short sound.
Lets take a look at what our mouth should look like when we pronounce ‘w’ as in ‘west’.
“Make your lips hard and round.”
Next, we’ll take a look at some words with the ‘w’ sound and contrast them with similar sounding words. Greg will say each word twice:
“west” “vest”; “wet” “vet”; “wine” “vine”; “we” “V”
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Let’s try a couple of sentences:
“When Vince drank wine he wrote the worst verse we ever heard!”
“Was it windy in the woods when you went there with William on Wednesday?”
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