How To Pronounce Shortage

In British English, shortage is pronounced /ˈʃɔː.tɪdʒ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈʃʷɔːʴ.tɪdʒ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈʃɔːr.t̯ɪdʒ/.

Shortage has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.