how to pronounce southern

/ˈsʌðɚn/

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southern is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of southern in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… largest in the Southern California area …”

meaning of southern

Southern is a region of the United States.

southern frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word southern occurs in english on average 42.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics southern can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that southern can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

2) people, society, and culture;