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one word in english pronounced incorrectly?
which is that word
11 Answers
- 1 decade ago
Not one word is ever said incorrectly ... depending on where you live. Plus, what you are trying to say may change the way the word is pronounced. I would say, "I would like to pre-fiss my statement with ..." but at the same time, I would say, "The pre-face of the book mentions ...." In fact, the dictionary will oftentimes list more than one pronounciation for a word.
Because English spelling is so backward, some words are hard to pronounce because they are spelled wrong. If the correct way of saying preface is "pre-fis," then we need to teach our children that like is "lik." (short i)
But, if everyone in a particular area started saying a word "wrong" and it caught on, then in a 100 years or less, the new pronounciation wouldn't be any more wrong that the old way of saying it.
Languages evolve!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Many.
When people went for an interview to a company they asked the candidates to pronounce the name of their company in the personal interview.Many of them failed miserably.The company's name is HOECHST.
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- RoValeLv 71 decade ago
A lot of them are pronounced imcorrectly. The worst examples I hear are "innerest" for "interest" and "new-queue-ler" for "nuclear".
- christiekpoeLv 51 decade ago
Preface
It's "preh-fiss"
Not "Pre - face"
MSL_ 007 is incorrect, the beginning of a book is also pronounced "preh-fiss". Look it up.