“It did take him a bit of time to learn to pronounce my name, but he was always apologetic when he said it wrong, and always insisted on the importance of getting such things right. He was easily the most inspirational and challenging teacher I’ve had…he just insisted that every ...
pronounce due and do identically, but in most British accents those words are pronounced differently. The words boy and buoy have the same pronunciation in England (and therefore are homophones), but not in America.You can be the final judge as to whether certain word pairs are homophones in...
Festival awards Gala, he taught the audience how to pronounce his name through song. He used the “Olé, Olé, Olé” and Coldplay’s “Yellow” to demonstrate how to do so and when Oyelowo accepted the awardhe quipped, “You know you’ve broken through when Brad Pitt sings your name!
There seems to be an initial resistance to the effort of doing things that, once we’ve begun, are highly rewarding.Getting over that initial resistance is the key to self-reward.I call this the “nothing-to-something barrier.” I’ve found that no matter what I’m doing, going from a...
pronounce due and do identically, but in most British accents those words are pronounced differently. The words boy and buoy have the same pronunciation in England (and therefore are homophones), but not in America.You can be the final judge as to whether certain word pairs are homophones in...