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Hey guys and welcome to the first episode of Embarrassing English Errors.
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So, this is episode number one. So, today I’m going to teach you the difference in pronunciation
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between the words “piece” and “piss”.
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So, “piece”, “a piece” of something, is a portion of an object or of material,
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and it’s produced by cutting, tearing or breaking the whole.
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So, you can have a piece of cake, or a piece of fabric.
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“A piss” or “to piss”. Piss is urine, or the act of urinating, depending on whether
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you’re using it as a noun or a verb. So, “I need to pee [piss]” or “I need to have a pee [piss]”.
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Um… so yeah, it’s going to the toilet to do a number one instead of a number two as we say in English.
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So, you pee and you poo, or you piss and you shit.
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So, “piss” is to pee or to urinate.
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So, some examples of how you could accidentally mix these two words up.
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You could say things like: “I might have a piece” and you could accidentally say “I might have a piss”.
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“I might have a piece”, “I might have a piss”.
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It’s the kind of thing where it’s a little embarrassing to accidentally mispronounce these words.
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Another one could be “a piece of cake”, you could say, “a piss of cake” accidentally.
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“How many pieces do you want?”, “How many pisses do you want?”.
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So these sorts of things get pretty embarrassing if you mispronounce them.
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“Do you want to have a piece?”, do you want to have a piece of cake?
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And you could accidentally say “do you want to have a piss”, which is sort of asking someone “do you need to go to the toilet?”
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instead of saying “do you want a piece of cake”.
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So other words in English that sound like “piece” are:
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Lease
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Cease
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Beast
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Least
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Thesis
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Species
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And other words that sound like “piss”:
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Kiss
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Miss
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List
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Fist
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This
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Sister
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Mister
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So, we’ll go through some exercises now guys where I will just say the two different
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vowel sounds in made up words or real words. So, it’s not so much important to know or
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be worrying about what these words mean.
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It’s more about practicing the difference in the pronunciation of these two different vowels “ee” and “ih”.
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Leese – Liss
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Meese – Miss
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Feese – Fiss
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Theese – This
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Deese – Diss
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Creese – Criss
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So, let’s break it down into just that first syllable guys and we can use the English words
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“pee”, as in “to need to pee”, and peer, as in “a peer at the beach”
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that you walk out on. It’s made of wood.
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Pee – peer x 10
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And now we’ll say and repeat the words “piece” and “piss” ten times.
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Piece – piss x 10
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So, if you guys have any other suggestions or words that you would like me to cover in
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Embarrassing English Errors, in an episode, then please jump on Facebook and send me a
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message or a comment with the word or the term that you’re having difficulty pronouncing,
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and I’ll do an episode as soon as I can.
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All the best guys!