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AE 402: If Clauses, Direct vs Indirect Speech, So vs Too, & More - Live Class

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How to Pronounce the R in Aussie English

If there's a vowel after the letter R, you would have to say it. Americans use ought to much more often than Australians and British people do. I'm not very used to hearing people say ought to but if I do hear it, I understand straight away what it means. But yeah, should is much more common and I believe it is just a synonym. If someone is on a jury, they are a jury man, jury, jury, Jury. So I have to say the R sound there because there's Ooh and then there's E. You can search words with and then the letter in it for Scrabble players.

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