Independent today running an article on 10 commonly mispronounced words.
How well did you guys do?
Must admit to surprise at finding I was guilty of mispronouncing 2 of the words - apparently my pronunciation of bruschetta and often would be wrong ;)
I'm sure that the most mispronounced word has not been listed as in my view the number of people (including TV newsreaders and reporters) who cannot pronounce "drawing" and insist on adding an R in the middle is unbelievable, and how many people talk about prostRate problems?
So, how do you pronounce HOMAGE? There seems to be a creeping trend in the media to use the French pronunciation - Ho-marge, rather than the proper English - Homij. Can we get back to English, and leave the frogs to their side of the English Channel, please! ;-)
Thank you for your message today. I am very new to all this and could not originally find the words I was mispronouncing, have now and admit to getting often wrong but the others I was okay on. Thanks and hope you get this.
Eight correct. I do say ofTen, being a northerner I can only think it is a colloquial thing, offen sounds sloppy to me. I got Bruchetta wrong and Ely. Now Keighley in West Yorkshire (Keith-ly) was OK, but my Aunties were called M** Keighley and it is pronounced Keeley.