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In this episode, Gabe and Greg demonstrate several words that often get overpronounced by those learning English. In many cases the words have lost vowel sounds over the centuries (a process called syncope) and thus are not pronounced as they are spelled.
Words in this episode include:
family
comfortable
vegetable
interest
thumb
plumber
climb
The brothers also provide alternatives to saying these words at all when you are in informal contexts (for example, "fam" is often substituted for "family").
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