Week Eight Oral Blog Entry -Domeastic News Headlines

I heard this story on Morning Report on National Radio on Monday April 30.

“The main story in the Press is that the government is looking at the ways to tackle truancy numbers. The story says last year an averaged 30,000 children a day skipped classes.”

Here are three pronunciation features which I noticed:
1.consonant to vowel linking- average of
2.weak forms - the ways to