100 Most Frequently Mispronounced Words

[USViking]

I got this from another board.

I like my own mispronunciations. Everyone else's really get on my nerves.

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

The ones I get wrong part or all of the time are:

close
diptheria
expresso
Febyuary
duc tape
forte
long-lived
parlament
reoccur
snuck
spitting image
stomp
verbage

I'm not going to change, but I think you should.

 

[freeandfun1]

I got this from another board.

I like my own mispronunciations. Everyone else's really get on my nerves.

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

The ones I get wrong part or all of the time are:


spitting image

That's right..... it should be "spit'n" image....

 

[Shattered]

perogative prerogative

I'll always type 'perogative'. Hmph.

 

[USViking]

That's right..... it should be "spit'n" image....

Both your version and mine are in my dictionary as "informal".

Supposedly the correct phrase is "spit and image",
which I have never heard once in my entire life.

Bogus.

 

[Annie]

I got this from another board.

I like my own mispronunciations. Everyone else's really get on my nerves.

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

The ones I get wrong part or all of the time are:

close
diptheria
expresso
Febyuary
duc tape
forte
long-lived
parlament
reoccur
snuck
spitting image
stomp
verbage

I'm not going to change, but I think you should.

ummm with my hearing, the list of words I misprounce is infinate!

 

[USViking]

perogative prerogative

I'll always type 'perogative'. Hmph.

That's not too bad.

 

[USViking]

ummm with my hearing, the list of words I misprounce is infinate!

I've heard worse.

Two of the ones that really get me are:

nucular
artic.

 

[manu1959]

i pronounce them all correct .............. in my head