Learn how to pronounce machine

Learn how to pronounce machine

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Everybody is talking about machine learning these days, but quite a few of those people pronounce the word machine incorrectly. From way in the past (that is, my youth), I also remember friends making the same mistake when talking about the band Rage against the Machine. The incorrect pronunciation of machine that you can often hear is [‘məʃin], which sounds like an amalgamation of the words mesh and in, with the phonetic stress on the first part. However, the correct pronunciation of machine is instead [mə’ʃiːn], listen here. Note the stress on the second syllable and the long pronunciation of the letter i.

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