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Today morning I was reading a book on American English compiled by some American Authors describing the commonly Mispronounced words in English. I found it very interesting and thought of sharing it with my readers as a fun-post of the week. Hope you will find it interesting too.
( NB:
I have replaced complicated notations with simple English )Often mispronounced as Mee-may or Mee-mee
- MEME
Correct Pronunciation is Meeem
Often mispronounced.
- LAVA
Correct Pronunciation is Laaaava ( with your mouth open ! lol )
Often mispronounced.
- PASTA
Correct Pronunciation is Paaasta
Often mispronounced as Awe-ree
- AWRY
Correct Pronunciation is Awe-raai
Often mispronounced as Epi-tom
- EPITOME
Correct Pronunciation is Epi-temee
Often mispronounced as Edin-burg
- EDINBURG
Correct Pronunciation Edin-beraah
Often mispronounced as Ethereal
- ETHEREAL
Correct Pronunciation is Ethee-real
Often mispronounced as Ver-sails
- VERSAILES
Correct Pronunciation is Ver-syls
Often mispronounced as For-tay
- FORTE (something you are good at)
Correct Pronunciation is Fortt
Often mispronounced as paren-thesis
- PARENTHESES
Correct Pronunciation is Paren-thee-sis
Often mispronounced as Crayp
- CREPE
Correct Pronunciation is Krep !!!
Often mispronounced as Laar-way
- LARVAE
Correct Pronunciation is Laarveeee or Lar-vaai
- Finally the best one of the lot, ANYWAYS !!!
Often used as Anyways
Anyway, there is no word called Anyways, only Anyway !!!
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