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English Pronunciation News: Heat Wave

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There has been a massive heat wave stretching from the midwest to the northeast causing a few deaths from heat stress and heat stroke. In North Carolina, when temperatures rose above 100 degrees, the Red Cross set up a cooling station there saying that many folks have nowhere to go to escape the heat.

The states that have been affected are: Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

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Heat (HEET)	Ohio (o-HI-yo)
folks (FOKS)	Virginia (vir-JIN-yu)
Kansas (KAN-sus)	North Carolina (north cār-o-LI-nu)
Illinois (IL-i-noi)	Maryland (MĀR-i-lund)
Missouri (mi-ZUR-ee)	Indiana (in-dee-AN-u)
Oklahoma (o-klu-HO-mu)	Pennsylvania (pen-sil-VĀN-yu)
Nebraska (ne-BRA-sku)	New York (NOO-YORK)
Iowa (I-o-wu)	New Jersey (NOO JER-zee)
Kentucky (ken-TU-kee)	Connecticut (cu-NE-di-cut)

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