Commonly mispronounced words

• Mothballz

  22 Dec 05, 21:53

  Wednesday--- Pronounced as wenz-dae... Not wed-ners-dae
  
• SBS9828X

  25 Dec 05, 18:01

  Originally posted by Mothballz:

  Wednesday--- Pronounced as wenz-dae... Not wed-ners-dae
  

  this is the best... guess this is mispronounced everywer
• laurence82

  25 Dec 05, 18:04

  flower is flower as pronounced by the british
  
  americans say flour
  
  
• Mothballz

  27 Dec 05, 19:04

  some british pronounce hands as -> harnds
• Mothballz

  1 Jan 06, 21:30

  Sachet--- Sa-shay not sa-chert
• ceecookie

  1 Jan 06, 21:31

  ditzy: di-tze and not diztey or dizzy
• Mothballz

  3 Jan 06, 20:52

  simultaneously---->sai-mult-ae-neous-ly not sim-ult-ae-neous-ly
• Mothballz

  7 Jan 06, 21:22

  Name--> Jose---->pronounced as ho-zay, not jo-s
• finoq

  8 Jan 06, 16:18

  anyone knows phonetic symbols? I know a bit, i studied the Oxford dictionary...
  
  The thing is, you can't put some characters into SgForums..
• Mothballz

  8 Jan 06, 22:05

  Originally posted by finoq:

  anyone knows phonetic symbols? I know a bit, i studied the Oxford dictionary...
  
  The thing is, you can't put some characters into SgForums..

  I noe... J Lam taugh me... U noe who he is...
• Mothballz

  10 Feb 06, 23:59

  How to pronounce endeavour?
• the Bear

  11 Feb 06, 00:02

  end-dev-vor
  
  i think
  
  oh.. this word drives me up the wall..
  
  DATA...
  
  it's DAY-TER.. not DAH-TAH
  
  comes from the word Datum..
• finoq

  11 Feb 06, 09:31

  Originally posted by Mothballz:

  I noe... J Lam taugh me... U noe who he is...

  
  
  wait...rephrase that
• finoq

  11 Feb 06, 09:32

  Hyperbola/ Parabola?
  
  HaI'Paerb(e)l(e)
  
  P(e)'raeb(e)l(e)
  
  oh nevermind
• DriftingGuy

  11 Feb 06, 09:42

  
  coup de grâce
  
  pronounced as coo dee gra not coop de grace
• Mothballz

  11 Feb 06, 22:02

  Originally posted by finoq:

  
  
  wait...rephrase that

  'I noe... J Lam taugh me... I noe who he is...' I rephrased le///
• protonhybrid

  11 Feb 06, 22:36

  dude english itself is a messed up language.
  
  
• SBS9828X

  11 Feb 06, 22:39

  Originally posted by DriftingGuy:

  coup de grâce
  
  pronounced as coo dee gra not coop de grace

  good 1
• Mothballz

  13 Feb 06, 14:14

  Hey, are there any commonly mispronounced names?
• coffeeortea

  13 Feb 06, 14:37

  Originally posted by thoreldan:

  Anyway i always call this person Jen
  lucky never call her jen-ne-vi-vi

  spelt as genevieve. =D
• coffeeortea

  13 Feb 06, 14:38

  this are my favs
  
  lingerie
  
  "lawn-jer-ray"
  
  Pharoah
  
  "fair-row"
  
  
• finoq

  14 Feb 06, 17:26

  How do you pronounce Viscount?
  
  Vis-count isit? Or i check the dictionary...unless my phonetic screwed up is it supposed to be Vai-count?
• Darkness_hacker99

  14 Feb 06, 18:18

  John's bill english: Farker
  English: Farquhua
• Griffie

  21 Feb 06, 21:37

  Originally posted by Mothballz:

  How to pronounce endeavour?

  its on-deh-voo
• Mothballz

  26 Feb 06, 21:17

  Fire
  Pronounced as fai-r or fai-yer?