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20 Feb 2017
FMT News @fmtoday 55 minutes ago
Sa-mon, not semen, English expert says of UiTM video
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However, UiTM accuses Juice Malaysia of deliberately giving a negative connotation to the pronunciation of ‘salmon’ in its repost of the video which has now gone viral.
GEORGE TOWN: The right way to pronounce salmon is sa-mon. Period.
That was the advice by a senior language instructor at the British Council (BC), who cleared the air over a recent video that went viral, claiming the correct way to pronounce salmon was “semen”.
Penang BC senior instructor Tom Grainger said salmon, among many other words, were commonly mispronounced by most Malaysians.
“It is sa-mon, the ‘L’ is silent. I have never heard it being pronounced as ‘semen’ before,” he told FMT.
Grainger said ‘th’ sounds, and long and short vowel sounds were some of the other weak points in English spoken by most Malaysians.
“An example of the ‘th’ sound that many folk find difficult to pronounce is when uttering a word such as ‘thigh’, they actually pronounce ‘Tai’. ‘Three’ may be uttered as ‘tree’.
“As for long and short vowel sounds, many Malaysians are unable to differentiate between long and short vowels.
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“It’s semen.” Thanks for clearing that up, #UiTM. Malaysian education is the best 
https://mobile.twitter.com/JuiceMy/status/832144257775345664/video/1
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