Transcript
You may have noticed that American English speakers sometimes cut syllables from words. In three-syllable words—FAM-i-ly—where the first syllable is stressed and the second and third syllables aren't, we drop the second syllable: FAM-ly.
Business: BUS-ness
Personal: PERS-nal
Interest: INT-rest
Memory: MEM-ry
Conference: CONF-rence
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