3 Sounds of the Plural "s" in English: [s], [z] or [ɪz]

Correction: At 6m 12s, "bits" is [s], not [z].
Use this English pronunciation lesson to practice the plural s, as well as connected speech and rhythm. Sorry for the bad sound quality!
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The example “there are bits of cake on the floor” you wrote that the S pronounced as “z” but it should be “s” because the t letter is voiceless or without vibration 🤔🤔🤔🤔

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In fact you can say "is" as both an /iz/ and /is/ sound, depending on your own preferences whether to emphasise your arguments. According to Cambridge Dictionary. Look it up yourself.

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[@Springkid27]

Great video! Just a quick question, I’ve been hearing the rules like if it ends in r, d, b, g, l...etc then it’ll be a z sound. Is that correct? what about the words like Letters Papers ( usually I heard ending s sound..same as with friends.) Friends Cars Toys Do they all have the z sound at the ends? Thank you!

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[@feliciatan8909]

Thank you for sharing, for the example “bits”,it should sound/s/? Or /z/? The note given in your example shown /z/ which is different from the rules given. Thank you

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Yes it was a mistake its bit[s] sense [t] is a voiceless consonant

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How can I distinguish between the flap T and the glottal stop ?

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6:16 U wrote bits with /z/ And the /t/ is a voiceless sound!

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very useful video; thanks a lot but could u tell me the pronunciation of the final S in abilities and facilities is it S. Z or IZ ? thanks in advance

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there are bits of the cake on the floor. bits end the sound is t right? cause p,t,k,f . can s.o help? i have seem Z sound. thank you

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[@alonerock136]

6:12 why ending sound of "bits" pronounce 'z'? It contradicts the previous rule at 0:37

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[@soundous_ghariib108]

Est se que tu as remarqué q u elle s est trompé dans le mot bits ça se prononce S et nn Z

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hello sweeding why in the example BITS you said that it should be pronounced with Z ?

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[@jumpair]

How come at 06:17 "bits of" are pronounced as "bitze" when you earlier noted that if "s" is preceded by silent "t" then it carries on without vibration?

[@elementalenglish]

This is a fantastic question. Any time there's a change in sound, mostly likely a sound before or after the change has caused it. Here, when I anticipated the vocal chord vibration from the [v] in "of" [əv], it led me to vibrate my vocal chords early and transform the [s] --> [z]. (See other lessons on transformation in sound for more clarification on vocal chord vibration). I didn't do this consciously or on purpose. It's just something I must have done unconsciously when speaking naturally and with the goal of efficiency. I probably would never have noticed it had you not said anything!

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jumpair This is also the question got in my mind.

[@WitheredChestnut]

Because in the phrase 'bits of', there is i and o before and after the ts sound, which makes it sounds like tz. Same thing like Water -> Wader, Tomato -> Tomado, and so on.

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I have a doubt, When you mention the word ( slices) that is supposed to be with ( IZ sound), did you mention the (z) sound ?? or Does it sound like ( IS) ?

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It's always [IZ] as far as I know...

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every time i speak in english word with s ,it became h. i dont know what to . when i speak a word with s it always became h or t

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Hi, I would like to ask about the words ended with /i/ and /ɪ/ how should we pronouns? for example: Copies, activities, and replies.

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So bosses will use iz, right?

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I'm killing myself trying to find info on the s added to third person singular verbs. Are the rules exactly the same? I'm looking like a fool in front of my students because I confused the spelling rules with the pronunciation rules.

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How about : "ies" in --carries-- for instance ???? iz? ??

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[@pivpo]

I have a question. If I correctly understand the lession, all words terminated by "ion", for example: nations, computations, pronunciations,.. the plurial will be pronunced /z/, right? My friends doesn't agree with me, because we don't pronunce the letter "n", so for him, the rule cannot be applicated. And he hears people always pronunce /s/. So, the words terminated by"ion", the plurial will be pronuced /z/ or /s/ ?

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x x the /n/-sound is voiced, so the the following plural "s" is pronounced as /z/.

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