English words mispronounced by non-native English speakers
English words mispronounced by non-native English speakers :
Which English words are most often mispronounced by non-native English speakers?
1. Plumber
Its correct pronunciation is plume(r) with b silent.
2. Dessert
It is pronounced as dee-sert not desert which has dry climate.
3. Pear
It's pronounced same as pair not pee-ar.
(Same can be applied for bear)
4. Sew
It's called as sou.
5. Tortoise
It's pronounced as tor-tuss.
6. Bath and bathe
They mean the same but are different parts of speech and are also pronounced differently. Bath is a noun and bathe is a verb which is mostly mispronounced as bath but the correct pronunciation is bae-th(d).
7. In continuation of bathe, bathing is pronounced as bae-th(d)ing.
8. Breath and breathe
Its more than pronunciation here, breath like bath is a noun and is pronounced as brea-th and breathe like bathe is verb and it is pronounced as bree-th.
9. Hind as in hind legs, hind brain etc.
It's pronounced as haInd not hiind like in hinder which means obstacle.
10. Asterisk
It's not tricky to pronounce but some how it is mispronounced a lot. It isn't astrik but ast-risk.
11. Zebra
It's called zeeh-bra.
12. Epitome
It's spoken as epi-tom-ee.
13. Diet
Its pronunciation is dai-et not di-te.
14. Deity
It's day-ti.
15. Vine and vineyard
Vine is pronounced as vAin just like wine but vineyard is called vIn-YaRD. You can also note the distinction in pronunciation of yard which is actually pronounced as yArd, a is emphasized in latter and not in former.
16. Wednesday
Its correct pronunciation is whens-day.
17. Dengue
This might surprise you, it did to me.
Its called Deng(i).
18. Asthma
It's pronounced as azma unlike its spelling.
19. Extempore
It's ex-tem-poré.
20. Advice / Advise
This pair is mispronounced because of lack of knowledge of the difference
between a noun and a verb.
Advice is a noun with a /s/ sound and advise is a verb with /z/ sound.
21. Pomeranian
It is the breed of dog which is wrongly pronounced as pomerian but as the name suggests, the correct pronunciation is p oh me ra ni an.
22. Capri
It's widely mispronounced, correct pronunciation is khu-pree.
We will keep editing this post as we recollect more.
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