Adjusting Pronunciation
Among the most peculiar quirks of human language, especially in English, is how the same arrangement of letters can form a word that has different meaning or even pronunciation depending on context, locale, or merely the quirks of the person speaking. George and Ira Gershwin wrote a whole song that played on this concept, identifying several pairs of conflicting pronunciations of words like tomato, potato, neither, and pajamas.
Most of the time, Alexa is pretty good about figuring out the correct way of saying a word based on its context. For example, if she were to say, “The storm is getting close,” the “s” in “close” would be a soft “s” sound. However, if she were to say, “You should close the windows,” the “s” would ...
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