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Lessons & Tips Pronunciation Lessons Did She Recite That ‘Po-yem’? Did She Recite That ‘Po-yem’?
This word is often mispronounced as ‘po-yEM’.
In standard English, we should pronounce it as ‘PO-em’. There are two vowel sounds in this word - ‘oh’ and ‘em’.
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She wrote a very moving po-em about the Singapore river and how her aged father had to toil away at the go-downs to bring food home. Her eyes welled up with tears as she read the poem to us.
Listen to this podcast to get the pronunciation right.
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