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towerbridge77
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Help with Pronunciation
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Help with pronunciation
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| Hi people!
My students need to talk about the " minutas" for their meetings but we�re not sure about their pronunciation. Could you pls help us?
Thanks in advance!!! |
Help with pronunciation
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| Hi people!
My students need to talk about the " minutas" for their meetings but we�re not sure about their pronunciation. Could you pls help us?
Thanks in advance!!! | �Hi!
Dear Zailda thanks for the link but I still have my doubt:
when you are talking about minutes (of a meeting) should you pronounce it /minits/ or /mainats/? Always in the plural, right?
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4 Nov 2009
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meuge
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Hi!
As far as I know both minutes ( time-related and related to the written records of a meeting...) are both pronounced /minits/
May be someone else can add something....
M. Euge
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4 Nov 2009
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Kate (kkcat)
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Hello, oh, I think I know what confuses you.
The word minute has several meanings and 2 ways of pronunciation. Let �s see. MINUTE /minit/ - part of hour, very short time, exact moment, short note, record of meeting (in the meaning � record of meeting � this word is usually used like this: the minutes. For example - we read throuhg the minutes of the last meeting.)
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- MINUTE /mainut/ but the meaning is : extremely small, tiny. E.g. the kitchen on the boat is minute. Another meaning here with this same pronunciations is �very detailed � - a minute inspection.
So, we can conclude that in the meaning connected with meetings you can use only the pronunciation - /minit/.
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4 Nov 2009
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