How native speakers pronounce “mother”

out it started before I was born my biological mother was a young unwed graduate student and she decided

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baby boy do you want him they said of course my biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated

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course my biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had

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Anyway, she went to see this specialist. So, this oak-paneled room, and she was there with her mother, and she was led and sat on this chair at the end,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and she sat on her hands for 20 minutes, while this man talked to her mother about all the problems Gillian was having at school,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

In the end, the doctor went and sat next to Gillian and said, "I've listened to all these things your mother's told me. I need to speak to her privately.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And when they got out of the room, he said to her mother, "Just stand and watch her." And the minute they left the room,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

she was on her feet, moving to the music. And they watched for a few minutes, and he turned to her mother and said, "Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn't sick.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

So she says, "Okay." And in the video, you see the mother sitting in the car.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

As a child, as a mother and as a professional. And I'm not the exception.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

He was a boy I had diagnosed with a bone cancer a few days before. He and his mother had been meeting with the chemotherapy doctors earlier that day,

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

It was almost midnight when I got to his room. He was asleep, but I found his mother reading by flashlight

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

We was cash-poor but rich in culture and pride. My mother was a substitute teacher for disabled children. She sang for churches and did backup singing for extra cash.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

realizing I'm acting like my son and expecting my mother to do what she never could. Not because she didn’t love me,

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

Moving forward mattered more than being healed. My mother was terrified I wouldn't survive, so she gave me what she knew:

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

a company I created out of nothing with my mother, my father and my three siblings.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

in the same way we might project faces into clouds, or even the image of Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun. I don't know if you can see that.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

I don't know if you can see that. There she is, Mother Teresa in a cinnamon bun. (Laughter)

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, instead of completely freaking out about it --

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

They are my brothers and sisters in the solo community around the world. There's my brother from another mother, Darwin, who's taught me more about unconditional love

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

But today, not everybody recognizes that. I spoke to a mother who really tried to get her son to make dating a priority because she wanted him to find emotional wholeness.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

to live with him, in fact. The mother said, "I don't understand how you can be partners

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

And we can support people who have these kinds of friendships. So the mother I mentioned, she's completely changed her tune. She now admires the commitment between her son and her son's friend.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

People would come over to talk to my grandparents, and after they would leave, my mother would come over to us, and she’d say, “Do you know who that was?

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

an ambitious woman, a mother? She turns her energy and ambition elsewhere.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

But this world was built for them. I owe it to my grandmothers and my mother and my teammates and my daughters.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Erica was just 27 years old, the mother of two children. She would be one of 137 Black women that day --

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Naturally, I went to be by his side, and for 14 days and nights my mother and I sat right next to him, urging him on.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

And I suddenly realized, as my parents’ only child, it was now all up to me to console my grieving mother, to organize the memorial service and the obituary,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

Well, one morning, when I was sure that my mother was well looked after, I got into my carm and I drove for four hours

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

to a concentration camp his father mother and wife were all killed when Frankl himself was released in 1946

Master

my bills one mother of two after escaping an abusive marriage was overcome with fear

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lost her job had a blow up with her mother and went on 53 First Dates her biggest fear was Heights so she

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powered by clean energy and run by local women. A mother contributing to her child's lunch with a tap of a wristband. Now

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

the problem is that most of us live in cities where Mother Nature is out of mind or far away

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And I experienced this personally. I mean, I'm not Mother Teresa, I'm still a selfish bastard a huge amount of the time.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

And when I would come home from school crying the ugly cry, my immigrant Jamaican mother would sit me down in front of the mirror and ask me,

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

especially the four-year-old. His mother was reunited with her sister who had come to Canada earlier through the same program.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

gone um about a mile to the fishing hole or and then the mother who was in her 40s had walked half a mile to school and

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

how he felt about potentially a matchmaker -- his mother, his aunts, his prospect’s mother, her aunts -- all choosing his marital partner.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

pushing a packet of marigold seeds into the earth, like my mother did. Her hands, so holy.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

for sea-wind and salt-air, the song of her gone mother coiled inside a shell she pushed so gently

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

hand in my hand, rocking you in the arms of my own mother, both of you pressed as tender as a seed into a poem

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

I wrote my first poem when I was 10. My mother was the person who gave me my first collection of poems, and it was something that felt so transformative, so magical.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

this poem really revolves around my childhood and this memory of growing a garden with my mother, growing this garden of marigolds,

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

And I'll never forget the day we went to his funeral. And my mother that evening, talking to myself and my sisters. Almost talking to herself.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

Almost talking to herself. My mother said, in my language of IsiXhosa ... (Speaking in IsiXhosa)

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

She was a very healthy woman and very active. And the year after that, my mother did not die. But exactly, almost exactly a year ago,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

But exactly, almost exactly a year ago, my mother passed away from a heartbreak because she could not longer connect

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

is that in order for me to be able to connect with my parents, with my mother, and with my brother

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother. (Applause)

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

from individuals or the government. I've always wanted to be a mother. Growing up, I heard all about the joys of motherhood.

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

about the fact that there could one day be a poem written about my kids. But I do not want to be a mother who gave birth to poems. I do not want a stanza for a son

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

I heard Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin's mother, speak. Her testimony so deeply impacted me

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

that I found myself constantly asking, what would it mean to mother in the United Stated of America in this skin?

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

to Constance Malcolm. She is the mother of Ramarley Graham who was another Black child

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

where nothing felt certain. My mother raised six of us kids, largely on her own, and for much of my childhood we didn't have a home.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

Wrong. Which leads me to lessons my mother Lolly taught me. Lolly’s number one lesson:

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

if such wear and tear is inevitable, how on earth does Mother Nature make sure we can keep our chromosomes intact?

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

The longer, the more years that is, the mother had been in this caregiving situation, no matter her age,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

But we have another more important reality that we ought to think about. Arabic is the mother tongue. Research says that mastery of other languages

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

Research says that mastery of other languages demands mastery of the mother tongue. is a prerequisite for creative expression in other languages. How?

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

At this moment, every one of you is a creative project. Creativity in your mother tongue is the path. Let's start from this moment.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

WPR: We have a question from TED Member Nesa. They ask: “As a mother of two very young children, what advice do you have for parents to build strong,

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

even if it's not so popular. You know, I had a mother talk to me about how her child really loved doing improv comedy.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

named Kurt. That's actually his surrogate mother to the right. She's an American Quarter Horse, a different species.

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

and invited everyone in our class but me. My mother assumed there had been some sort of error, and she called Mrs. Finkel,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

Frank Gehry said to me, "My mother pushed me." (Laughter)

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Richard St. John

I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

His name was Fide. The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor. My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor. My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family. And when I didn't finish my dinner, my mother would say,

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My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family. And when I didn't finish my dinner, my mother would say, "Finish your food! Don't you know? People like Fide's family have nothing."

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Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

the U.S. and the Mexican? What if my mother had told us that Fide's family was poor and hardworking?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

How do we reclaim our beautiful and complex systems of natural food, food given to us lovingly by Mother Earth according to her own rhythm, food prepared by our foremothers with joy

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

An indigenous medicine woman once told me that love is to walk on Mother Earth as her most beloved child,

What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

And I said, "Thank you for being here." My mother, out in the audience, she jumped up, "Hallelujah, Johnny’s talking!"

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

Imagine if you were quiet for 17 years and your mother was out in the audience, say. My dad said to me, "That’s one" --

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

They’re back in Philadelphia. And so I told my mother, "I’m happy though, I’m really happy." She said, "If you were happy, son, you wouldn’t have to say it."

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and there we had this amazing food. By the way, this is my mother. She's cool. And that's the Palestinian food called maqluba.

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Be good to as many people as possible." And as he danced with my mother, who is, by the way, half his age,

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