Mispronounced words in English Pdf!
Here is the list of 50 mispronounced words in English, that we must have to avoid for better speaking and language pronunciation.
List of Mispronounced Words in English
Here is the list of commonly mispronounced words in English:
| Do say: The Caucasus (caw-cah-suhs) | Don’t say: The Caucases (caw-cah-says) |
| Do say: a blessing in disguise | Don’t say: a blessing in the skies |
| Do say: across | Don’t say: acrossed |
| Do say: affidavit | Don’t say: affidavid |
| Do say: Alzheimer’s disease | Don’t say: old-timer’s disease |
| Do say: Antarctic | Don’t say: Antartic (ant-ar-tic) |
| Do say: Arctic | Don’t say: Artic |
| Do say: ask | Don’t say: aks or axe |
| Do say: athlete, athletic | Don’t say: athelete, atheletic |
| Do say: Australia | Don’t say: Ostraya |
| Do say: barbed wire | Don’t say: bob wire (or barb wire) |
| Do say: barbiturate | Don’t say: barbituate |
| Do say: business | Don’t say: bidness |
| Do say: cache (cash) | Don’t say: cachet (cash-ay) |
| Do say: cacophony (ca-caw-fone-ee) | Don’t say: caucaphony (caw-ca-fone-ee) |
| Do say: candidate | Don’t say: cannidate |
| Do say: cardsharp | Don’t say: card shark |
| Do say: carpal tunnel syndrome | Don’t say: carpool tunnel syndrome |
| Do say: cavalry (cav-al-ree) | Don’t say: Calvary (cal-vah-ree) |
| Do say: champ at the bit | Don’t say: chomp at the bit |
| Do say: chest of drawers | Don’t say: chester drawers |
| Do say: clothes | Don’t say: close |
| Do say: cornet (kor-net) | Don’t say: coronet (kor-oh-net) |
| Do say: dilate (dye-late) | Don’t say: dialate (dye-ah-late) |
| Do say: diphtheria | Don’t say: diptheria |
| Do say: dog-eat-dog world | Don’t say: doggy dog world |
| Do say: drown | Don’t say: drownd |
| Do say: electoral | Don’t say: electorial |
| Do say: enclosed in parentheses (pare-en-the-sees) | Don’t say: enclosed in parenthesis (pare-en-the-sis) |
| Do say: escape | Don’t say: excape |
| Do say: especially | Don’t say: expecially |
| Do say: espresso | Don’t say: expresso |
| Do say: et cetera | Don’t say: excetera |
| Do say: February (Feb-roo-air-ee) | Don’t say: Febuary (Feb-you-air-ee) |
| Do say: federal (fed-err-all) | Don’t say: fedral (fed-rall) |
| Do say: film | Don’t say: fillum |
| Do say: fiscal | Don’t say: fisical |
| Do say: foliage (foh-lee-age) | Don’t say: foilage (foy-ull-age) |
| Do say: for all intents and purposes | Don’t say: for all intensive purposes |
| Do say: forte (for-tay) | Don’t say: fort (fort) |
| Do say: founder | Don’t say: flounder |
| Do say: foyer | Don’t say: foy-ay |
| Do say: GIF (jiff) | Don’t say: GIF (ghiff) |
| Do say: height | Don’t say: heighth |
| Do say: Heimlich maneuver (or manoeuvre, Br.) | Don’t say: Heineken remover |
| Do say: hierarchy (hi-err-ar-key) | Don’t say: hi-archy |
| Do say: interpret | Don’t say: interpretate |
| Do say: jewelry (jool-ree) | Don’t say: jewlery (joo-luh-ree) |
| Do say: just | Don’t say: jist nor jus |
| Do say: larynx (lare-inks) | Don’t say: larnyx (lare-nicks) |
| Do say: law and order | Don’t say: Laura Norder |
| Do say: lease | Don’t say: leash |
| Do say: liable | Don’t say: libel |
| Do say: library | Don’t say: libary |
| Do say: masonry | Don’t say: masonary |
| Do say: mauve | Don’t say: mawv |
| Do say: mayonnaise | Don’t say: man-naise |
| Do say: miniature (min-ee-ah-ture) | Don’t say: miniture (min-ih-ture) |
| Do say: mischievous (mis-chiv-ous) | Don’t say: mischevious (mis-chee-vee-ous) |
| Do say: moot | Don’t say: mute |
| Do say: nuclear | Don’t say: nucular |
| Do say: nuptial (nup-shul) | Don’t say: nuptual (nup-shu-ull) |
| Do say: often | Don’t say: off ten |
| Do say: ordnance | Don’t say: ordinance |
| Do say: orient | Don’t say: orientate |
| Do say: ostensibly | Don’t say: ostensively |
| Do say: other | Don’t say: nother |
| Do say: parliament | Don’t say: parlament |
| Do say: percolate | Don’t say: perculate |
| Do say: peremptory | Don’t say: preemptory |
| Do say: pernickety | Don’t say: persnickety |
| Do say: perspire | Don’t say: prespire |
| Do say: pollute | Don’t say: plute |
| Do say: potable | Don’t say: pottable |
| Do say: prerogative | Don’t say: perogative |
| Do say: prescription | Don’t say: perscription |
| Do say: probably | Don’t say: probly, prolly |
| Do say: pronunciation | Don’t say: pronounciation |
| Do say: prostate | Don’t say: prostrate |
| Do say: realtor (real-tor) | Don’t say: realator (real-a-tor) |
| Do say: regardless | Don’t say: irregardless |
| Do say: relevant | Don’t say: revelant |
| Do say: respite (res-pit) | Don’t say: respite (res-pite) |
| Do say: sherbet | Don’t say: sherbert |
| Do say: silicon | Don’t say: silicone |
| Do say: sneaked | Don’t say: snuck |
| Do say: so | Don’t say: sose |
| Do say: spay | Don’t say: spade |
| Do say: stamp | Don’t say: stomp |
| Do say: stub | Don’t say: stob |
| Do say: suite (sweet) | Don’t say: suit (soot) |
| Do say: supposedly | Don’t say: supposably |
| Do say: supremacist | Don’t say: supremist |
| Do say: tack | Don’t say: tact |
| Do say: take for granted | Don’t say: take for granite |
| Do say: tenet | Don’t say: tenant |
| Do say: tenterhooks | Don’t say: tenderhooks |
| Do say: triathlon (tri-ath-lon) | Don’t say: triathalon (tri-ath-a-lon) |
| Do say: utmost | Don’t say: upmost |
| Do say: verbiage (ver-bee-age) | Don’t say: verbage (ver-bage) |
| Do say: voluptuous | Don’t say: volumptuous |
| Do say: wasn’t | Don’t say: wadn’t |
| Do say: whet | Don’t say: wet |
| Do say: yolk | Don’t say: yoke |
| Do say: zoology (zo-ol-oh-gee) | Don’t say: zuology (zu-ol-oh-gee) |
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