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Asphalt Rock Pronunciation

Asphalt Rock is pronounced AS-fawlt-RAHK, IPA /ˈæsˌfɔlt ˈrɑk/.

AS-fawlt-RAHK

US /ˈæsˌfɔlt ˈrɑk/  ·  UK /ˈæsfɒlt ˈrɒk/

Syllables: AS · fawlt · RAHK (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)

noun (phrase): Natural rock that already contains asphalt, quarried and used for paving.

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Asphalt Rock in a Sentence

  • The quarry supplied asphalt rock to half the county.
  • Asphalt rock was paving American streets by the 1870s.
  • A seam of asphalt rock runs under the ridge.

Common Mispronunciations of Asphalt Rock

Not as-FAWLT ROK

Two words, and the first one leads. Say AS-fawlt at full volume and let rock follow a little lower.

Not ASH-fawlt rahk

Keep the sp as a crisp s followed by f. The sh version turns up in speech but not in dictionaries.

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