English pronunciation · Words Starting with G
Geography Pronunciation
Geography is pronounced jee-AH-gruh-fee, IPA /dʒiˈɑgrəfi/.
jee-AH-gruh-fee
US /dʒiˈɑgrəfi/ · UK /dʒɪˈɒgrəfi/
Syllables: jee · AH · gruh · fee (4 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: The study of the earth's surface, its features, and the way people live on it.
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Geography in a Sentence
- She teaches geography to the sixth form.
- The geography of the region makes farming difficult.
- My geography is poor, so I had to look up the border.
Common Mispronunciations of Geography
Not JEE-oh-gra-fee
Only the second syllable is loud, and the others shrink around it. Lifting the first one gives the prefix geo its full value, which this word does not do.
Not gee-OG-ruh-fee
This is the British shape and perfectly correct there. American speakers open the vowel out to ah instead of the short o.
Tip: Four syllables with the peak on number two. The same pattern runs through photography, biography, and geology.
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