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How to pronounce fog in American English
FAHG
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Americans pronounce fog as FAHG (/fɑg/). You'll hear it in sentences like "They think the thick fog makes it hard to breathe" or "He navigated through the dense fog using a compass" — more examples below.
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ah/ɑ/
Relax your lips and drop your jaw significantly. The tongue tip lightly touches behind the bottom front teeth and the back part of the tongue presses down a little to create more dark space in the back of the mouth.
g/g/
Raise the back of your tongue to touch the soft palate. Add vocal cord vibration, then release.
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"He navigated through the dense fog using a compass."
hee NA·vuh·gay·duhd throo dhuh DEHNS FAHG YOO·zuhng uh KUHM·puhs
"The morning fog cleared up by noon and it became beautiful."
dhuh MOR·nuhng FAHG KLEERD UHP bahy NOON and iht buh·KAYM BYOO·tuh·fuhl
"They think the thick fog makes it hard to breathe."
dhay THIHNGK dhuh THIHK FAHG MAYKS iht HARD tuh BREEDH
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Common pronunciation mistakes in American English.
The textbook way isn't wrong — it's just not how anyone actually says it.
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Releasing the final consonant with a puff of air.
In "fog", the "g" is not released — the articulators get into position but hold without the burst of air. Air stops but there's no release burst — the articulators hold position.
fog→FAHG
Questions
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Is the American pronunciation of "fog" different from British English?
American English uses different vowel shapes, a relaxed retroflex R, and connected-speech tricks like flap-T and glottal-stop T that British Received Pronunciation generally avoids. The respell "FAHG" reflects the casual American form; British dictionaries typically print a citation form with crisper consonants and different vowel choices.
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