3.10: Pronunciation

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Don Bissonnette
South Seattle Community College

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Pronunciation of SH/CH/ZH

Shane Chain

Sheep Cheap

Shop Chop

She’s Cheese

Shin Chin

1. I polish my shoes with shoe polish.

2. He paid a cheap price for the sheep.

3. She’s a cheese lover.

4. The cream cheese in the shop was cheap.

5. My chin hurts when I chew gum.

Wash Watch

Wish Which

Hash Hatch

Hush Hutch

Mash Match

1. I watched the dish washer wash the dishes.

2. The chicken hatched eight eggs.

3. The mother hushed her children in church.

4. Richy bought cherries at the shop.

5. Which watch do you wish to have?

Splash Splashed

Wish Wished

Wash Washed

Mash Mashed

Push Pushed

1. Did you wash the white shirt?

2. Who pushed the car after it crashed?

3. Who splashed water on the kitchen floor?

4. Where do you wish you were right now?

5. Did your mother make mashed potatoes last night?

Watch Watched

Match Matched

Punch Punched

Pinch Pinched

Patch Patched

1. The boy pinched the girl on the cheek.

2. My wife patched my son’s shirt last night.

3. The man punched the police chief in the chin.

4. The boys matched each other’s chest hair.

5. We watched the chess match on TV.

SH and ZH

she share action patient cash sugar wish crash

fish ashes should facial splash sure rational fashion

1. He wishes he were a fish and could splash in the water.

2. The plane crashed into the shack on the side of the hill.

3. The patients were in the hospital with facial injuries.

4. She should share her milk shake with her sister.

measure casual usual usually decision massage

occasionally television garage pleasure collision Asian

1. The Asian students usually had trouble with pronunciation.

2. Please measure the television in the den.

3. It was a pleasure to occasionally get a massage.

4. That Asian mechanic does collision work in his garage.