sale · sell The difference in meaning and sound
What they mean
Sale is the noun: "a sale", "for sale" (available to buy), "on sale" (often: reduced in price). Sell is the verb: "sell a car", with the past tense sold.
앱에서 실제로 쓰는 음성이에요. 소리를 켜 주세요.
Hear both words in 10 voices
Each row is one speaker saying both words. Play one, then the other, and switch to slow when the difference hides.
- American woman, younger
- American woman, older
- American man, younger
- American man, older
- British woman, younger
- British woman, older
- British man, younger
- British man, older
- Australian woman
- Australian man
What's different
Both words end in a dark L, which can sound like a soft "o" or "u" in place of an L. So don't wait for the end: the difference comes before the L, where sale glides up toward "ee" and sell stays flat.
Here length helps more than in most pairs of this collection. The L lets the vowel stretch, and the glide makes sale clearly the longer word, much as katakana セール and セル suggest.
eɪ(bait)는 '이' 쪽으로 미끄러지고, e(bet)는 짧고 움직이지 않아요.
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