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How to pronounce homage

Homage starts with "AH" in CMUdict, with or without a sounded h (AA1 M AH0 JH or HH AA1 M AH0 JH), and ends in a soft "ij".

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The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists these 2 North American English pronunciations for homage. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

AA1 M AH0 JH

Syllable estimate: 2 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

HH AA1 M AH0 JH

Syllable estimate: 2 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

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Syllable counts come from vowel tokens; CMUdict does not supply syllable boundaries here. Variant order follows the dictionary and does not rank correctness. This lexicon does not represent every accent or context.

Use homage in context

Film reviews, music writing and art criticism lean on homage to describe a deliberate tribute. CMUdict gives two forms that differ only in whether the h is voiced, both ending in a short "ij" rather than a French "ahzh". Pick the form that suits the tone of the piece and hold it.

The opening shot is an homage to an old Western.
Her new album pays homage to the singers who raised her.

Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of homage. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A).

AAsound in oddvowel

Msound in meconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

JHsound in geeconsonant

HHsound in heconsonant

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How to pronounce homage

Word: homage
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: AA1 M AH0 JH
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The opening shot is an homage to an old Western.
Her new album pays homage to the singers who raised her.

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Practice note: Whichever h choice you make, check that any article before it agrees, since "an" fits the silent form more smoothly. Record both forms once and keep the one that matches your delivery.

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Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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