PIRF 425 - Advice – Drop’m like a hot potato.pdf

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Pronunciation●Intonation●Rhythm●Flow

Don’t make a VOWEL FOUL!

How many certain Short Is in this assignment

Advice – Drop’m like a hot potato

Clichés are a dime a dozen. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. They’ve been

used once too often. They’ve outlived their usefulness. Their familiarity breeds

contempt. They make the writer look as dumb as a doornail, and they cause the reader

to sleep like a log. So be sly as a fox. Avoid clichés like the plague. If you start to use

one, drop it like a hot potato. Instead, be smart as a whip. Write something that is fresh

as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. Better safe than sorry.

Whoops, you missed the instead and something.

The practice

The first time with Coach Richard at 8:40 am on 2025-02-24

• cliches: Stress the second syllable.

• outlived/whip: short I sound

• log/fox/often: All short O sound

• plague: long A sound

The second time with Coach Richard at 8:40 am on 2025-02-25

The second time with Coach Richard at 8:40 am on 2025-02-27

🎉， Coach do not find any pronation problem.