PIRF 421:Measurements – Embracing the Imperial System

Pronunciation●Intonation●Rhythm●Flow

HOW TO SPEAK! HOW TO TALK!

Don’t make a VOWEL FOUL!

How many certain Short Es in this assignment?

Measurements – Embracing the Imperial System

Since 1983, the meter has been officially defined as the distance that light travels in a

vacuum during 1/299,792,458 of a second. But why would I want to mess around with

that metric stuff? I’m an American and I use miles—like the Romans. They had a

thousand paces to their mile, which they counted by stepping on their left foot. Kind

of complicated if you ask me and who even counts steps when it’s just so much easier

to drive? No wonder it’s hard to find that treasure everyone’s always talking about.

"Twenty paces east?" Pfft, I can’t even remember where I parked my car!

Whoops, the missed the words of 792 and twenty, besides, the letter e of American is long A plus R, not short E sound;

Practice

The first time with Coach Lan at 6:50 pm on 2025-01-10

• 458: fifty, fifdy

• Roman/their/parked: more R sound

• treasure: ZH sound

The second time witch Coach Richard at 9:10 pm on 2025-01-12

• vacuum : more V sound