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How do you pronounce the word 'the' before a word beginning with a vowel and a word beginning with a consonant?
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In everyday running speech, the vowel in the word "the" in front of a consonant is pronounced with a neutral sound called a schwa. This is the sound of the first and last vowels in "banana". It is something like a grunt!
This sound is not heard in most languages. It is similar to the vowel sound in the French word "jaune" meaning yellow.
This would be awkward to pronounce before a vowel, though. So we tend to lengthen the vowel in "the" to an "ee" sound, as in "see" but briefer, and put before the following vowel a consonantal "y" (as in "yellow").
For example, the schwa is in "the lot" and "the movie". In "the end" we say something like "thee yend", and in "the inside" we say "thee yin side".
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