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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