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  2. Mispronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Many words have lost phonemes (consonant or vowel sounds) somewhere in their histories. Sometimes, this changes the standard of pronunciation. For example, the silent k at the start of many words in the English language was originally pronounced. However, a word is mispronounced if a phoneme is omitted when it is not normally pronounced that way.

  3. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Words marked with subscript A or B are exceptions to this, and thus retains a full vowel in the (relatively) unstressed syllable of AmE or BrE. A subsequent asterisk, *, means that the full vowel is usually retained; a preceding * means that the full vowel is sometimes retained. Words with other points of difference are listed in a later table.

  4. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations.

  5. These are the most mispronounced words of 2024 - AOL

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    The Swedish language also contributes two words on the UK list: smokeless tobacco Snus, pronounced (SNOOZ), and flygskam, the name of a movement that aims to discourage people from flying that ...

  6. Non-native pronunciations of English - Wikipedia

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    The dental fricatives /ð/ (as in "the") and /θ/ (as in "think") are often mispronounced. [44] Hebrew speakers may confuse /w/ and /v/. [44] In Hebrew, word stress is usually on the last (ultimate) or penultimate syllable of a word; speakers may carry their stress system into English, which has a much more varied stress system. [44]

  7. Mystery solved: How to pronounce 'Qatar,' the World Cup host ...

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    Other Arabic speakers have explained that the English word closest to the native pronunciation might actually be “guitar.” In Gulf dialects, the first consonant in “Qatar” is more a “g ...

  8. Foo Fighters explain how to correctly pronounce their name - AOL

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    Christopher Walken returned to Saturday Night Live this past weekend to take another stab at pronouncing Foo Fighters.. Back in 2003, the Pulp Fiction star, 80, introduced the band on SNL, putting ...

  9. Speech sound disorder - Wikipedia

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    [3] Iotacism is a difficulty in producing /j/ sound. [4] Kapacism is a difficulty in producing /k/ sound. [2] Lambdacism (from the Greek letter λ) is the difficulty in pronouncing lateral consonants. [2] [5] Rhotacism is a difficulty producing rhotic consonants sounds in the respective language's standard pronunciation. [2] [5]

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