20 Words You might Pronounce Incorrectly

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with lucy today is a video that can be

appropriate for both native speakers are

you people who have English as a mother

tongue and also non-native speakers

people who are learning English as a

second or as an additional language it

might be your third language I know some

of you are completely crazy and are on

your seventh language comment down below

and tell me how many languages you speak

I’m going to talk to you about words

that are hard to pronounce there will be

20 words in total and it’s going to be a

bit of a tongue twister even for me I

love doing this pronunciation video and

I’ve done a couple before and I did one

on commonly mispronounced words by

non-native speakers the ten words that

you might pronounce incorrectly which

you can watch by clicking here and also

ten words that native speakers might

pronounce incorrectly as well and you

can click here as well to see that yes

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now the first word I want to talk to you

about is this one

how do you say it go on give a go

the word is choir choir the next word

number two is this one it’s difficult

because we’ve got the sound twice rural

rural cut it doesn’t sound nice when I

say rural now the next one number three

is actually a place name it’s a county

in the UK its Worcestershire

Worcestershire so people want to say war

sester sheer water to shire but it

should be Worcester Worcester

Worcestershire how do we pronounce and

that brings me on to my next one number

four which is this is it sheer is it

Shire or is it sure the answer is it can

be all of them officially it should be

Shire or sure but a lot of people blend

the two and say that’s what my

family and I say we’re from Bedfordshire

I’m living in Cambridge here the next

one number five is Prelude Prelude a lot

of people want to say previewed or

Prelude but it should be Prelude the

next one number six or number six yes

the next one number six is a word that

most native people will note but when I

was teaching Spaniards English they

never knew how to pronounce it because

it’s quite a complicated spelling if

this one how do you say it it’s squirrel

squirrel and that burning or people with

Chinese as a mother tongue that might be

a really difficult one because for an

all often get confused so square or

square roll two syllables er the next

one number seven this one we’ve got that

Earth sound again

dura dura also people suffer with the

Jew sound dura it’s a very complicated

mouse movement that you have to make so

I almost stick out my chin when I

it zerah zerah beautiful angle there the

next one number eight spiracle spherical

so satisfying one to say when it’s

teracle a lot of people say spherical

because we have a sphere and a sphere is

spherical but it should be f not ear F

circle number nine this one Frenchie’s

where are you because this one is yours

valet valet that you will hear some

people saying valid valid that

pronunciation is accepted by some

dictionaries but come on guys let’s say

ballet number ten

pronunciation now this one is a really

common mistake pronunciation how you

pronounce something a lot of people will

say pronunciation sometimes I get

accused of saying pronounce of saying

pronunciation in my videos but really it

is just my accent pronunciation

enunciation I say it so quickly of it

and people like to pick at me and wait

for me to make a mistake because I meant

to be correct all the time

number eleven this one I’ve heard so

many different pronunciations that I

honestly before researching this video

didn’t know which one was right it

should be move move many people will say

more or more but it should be move the

next one number twelve regime regime

which one should it be it should be

regime I’ve got a new regime the next

one that number thirteen is this one now

because it comes from French it should

be pronounced nice with a soft sound at

the end unvoiced but many people will

pronounce it niche

it sounds so ugly compared to niche

which is so beautiful and air in breath

in the niche niche yes

at the next one number 14 is more a

confusion between two words it’s moot

moot it’s a matter about which there may

be discussion or confusion but people

generally confuse it with mute which

means silent not speaking not making a

noise moot Newt the next one this one

you might ask for a nice beer it’s draft

I used to work in a pub and I heard

people ask for a drought beer a couple

of times but it’s a draft draft beer

number 16 so this one yes in my lifetime

I have heard someone say I’ll bait I’ll

bait and I was thinking I’ll bait what

do they mean

turns out it’s albeit albeit the next

one and this is one that my Italian ex

flatmate used to pronounce incorrectly

all the time he used to say let you let

youth in the house know it’s lettuce

lettuce ya confusing spelling there the

next one a word that you might not use

in everyday conversation but it’s an

interesting one because it’s such a

bizarre spelling and pronunciation

difference Colonel not : all colonel why

why I’m sure there’s a fabulous reason

behind actually I just reset I just

researched it it was Colin L and then

Coronel and that’s where the modern

pronunciation came from Colonel just a

squashed up version of Coronel the next

one number 19 is another place name and

this one is important because we have

GMT I hear a lot of people saying

Greenwich and I can totally understand

why you would say that because reading

it green which it makes sense but now

it’s Greenwich Greenwich the next one

infamous I’ve heard a couple of people

pronounce it in famous which is

incorrect infamous number 20 this one I

used to pronounce incorrectly this one

is gay

but it looks like it should be

pronounced Gorge but no its gauge your

gorge

this is gauge that’s it for today’s

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