100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases

[platinumdude]

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html


Interesting list. Some of these I have never pronounced correctly until now. One should be cardsharp instead of card shark.

[EE_]

They left out a couple biggies

"to" has become "tuh"
"for" has become "fur"

These are commonly used by presidents and Harvard grads...and by just about everyone else.
They should be changed in the dictionary.

Used in a sentence
"I have tuh go tuh the store and get some beer fur the weekend."

[platinumdude]

OK. the card shark one is debateable

http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/cardshark.asp

[Ponce]

You should be a cuban talking english lol........specially a ponce hahaha

[MNeagle]

Page won't load for me...

How you feeling Ponce?

[Ponce]

The same, thanks, still no pain.......just did my backyard with the riding lawnmower.

[Barbaro]

They left out a couple biggies

"to" has become "tuh"
"for" has become "fur"

These are commonly used by presidents and Harvard grads...and by just about everyone else.
They should be changed in the dictionary.

Used in a sentence
"I have tuh go tuh the store and get some beer fur the weekend."

yes, EE.

This is pronunciation and I teach this to higher level students that will be going to the US for work, travel, etc.

Vowel reduction is common, and constant in our daily use of english.

Another different example: I want to go to the store --> I wann go duh the store.

What are you going to do? ---> Whaddaya gonna do?

This is why many high level learners who studying English for years discover they have problems with listening (understand when listening) to colloguial English.

Listening IMO, is the most difficult skill.

[madfranks]

I can't believe they left out "should of" instead of "should have". Not only do I hear people say "should of" all the time, I see people type it too.

[Awoke]

Yeah, I think they're wrong on the "Chomp at the bit" one and the "tact" one too.
Maybe the Tact one I am just not reading correctly...

I didn't realize I have been pronouncing "Potable" incorrectly.

It's actually POE-tah-bull, not PAH-tah- bull (new to me, anyways!)

[Neuro]

I do pronounce it of-ten not ofen, it is commonly pronounced of-ten in the UK, among the educated at least... GWB had a very strong nuke-e-lar option...

[freespirit]

when in high school, i had an english teacher that mentioned this sort of thing...one of his examples that stuck w/me all these years was "Jeet yet? Node, jew?

lol

[platinumdude]

Yeah, I think they're wrong on the "Chomp at the bit" one and the "tact" one too.
Maybe the Tact one I am just not reading correctly...

I didn't realize I have been pronouncing "Potable" incorrectly.

It's actually POE-tah-bull, not PAH-tah- bull (new to me, anyways!)


But the sort of “champ” that horses do is almost certainly onomatopoeic or “echoic” in origin, meaning that “champ” arose as an imitation of the sound of an animal noisily chewing something. “Champ” is a fairly recent word, dating only to the 16th century, and “champ at the bit” applied figuratively to eager humans is even more recent, first appearing at the end of the 19th century. “Chomp,” incidentally, is simply a popular variant of “champ” (much as “stamp” begat “stomp”), so while “champing at the bit” is the more established form, “chomping at the bit” can’t really be said to be incorrect.

[platinumdude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlWOu9FHm-I

[Ponce]

Jesus H Ponce.......I read about 25 of them and I can't believe that people are making mistakes with those words, even with my poor English I got all of them right........it tells me a lot ab0ut the education system in this land.....but of course my pronounciation is something else.

[Awoke]

"Jeet yet? Node, jew?

lol


Did you eat yet? No, did you? <--guessing

[freespirit]

that's the one, Awoke! good guess!

;)

[gunDriller]

the one i hear people mess up the most is when to use "less" and "fewer".

my mom was an English teacher, we had it drilled into us.