Dave Nicholls

Okay, yeah.

Thanks for having me, Aubrey.

I've got some different words that I often hear mispronounced here.

And I'd be interested to hear how you pronounce them as well, because I'm well aware that in America, you have a slightly different accent than we have in the UK.

And so, I'd like to know how you pronounce these words too.

Okay.

Yes, all over the country here, people have very different accents, and it's actually much harder for me to understand someone from Scotland or from Ireland than someone from the United States.

Okay, yeah.

So, firstly, students have a lot of trouble differentiating the sound of walk, and I mean when you're walking or running, that kind of activity, walking and working.

And I mean when you go to work and get paid, when you go to the office or go to the factory and you go and get paid, you work.

But when you go somewhere on foot, you walk.

And so, there is a difference.

In British English, we say walk,

Yeah, when you're walking or work, when you're working.

How do you say those sounds?

Okay, yeah, so it's in British English that they're closer, and perhaps this is why my students have problems differentiating the sound.

And there is a third word which is very, very similar but different in British English.

We have walk for when you're walking.

We have work for when you go to work or go to the office.

But we also have walk.