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Combine 'lay' with a long 'a' sound.
End with 'sher' where 'r' is pronounced.
mispronouncing 'cie' as 'see' (gla-see-er)
dropping the 'g' sound (la-cier)
incorrect stress on the second syllable (gla-cier)
Start with a hard 'g' like in 'game'.
Use a short 'a' as in 'cat' for 'gla'.
Say 'ci' softly, like 'see'.
Finish with an unstressed 'er' sounding like 'uh'.
pronouncing 'ci' as 'sh' (gla-sh-er)
saying 'er' too prominently (gla-cier)
stress on the second syllable (gla-cier)
The 'g' is hard because it precedes a vowel.
In American English, 'ci' sounds like 'sh'; in British English, it sounds like 'see'.
The stress is on the first syllable: 'GLAY-shur' in AmE, 'GLA-sier' in BrE.
A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
/aɪs/
Frozen water
/ˈɡleɪʃl/
Related to glaciers
/snoʊ/
Frozen precipitation
Glacier uses 'ci' pronounced as 'sh' or 'si', unlike 'ice'.
Glacier has two syllables; 'glacial' ends with a soft 'shl' sound.
Snow remains a single syllable, unlike glacier's two or three.
Emphasize the first syllable to correctly pronounce the word.
Compare with 'gracious', 'glacier' to understand syllable changes.
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