Sunday, September 4, 2011

Hold the Fort #2 (commonly mispronounced words)



Here are more words that are frequently mispronounced:


sherbet- second syllable pronounced "bet," not "bert"

sloth- rhymes with "both," not "cloth"

clique- rhymes with "geek," not "sick"

cerebral- first syllable stressed, not second-CERebral

zoology- first syllable rhymes with "so," not "boo"

genealogy- third syllable "al," not "ol"

processes- last syllable sounds like "iz," not "eez"



No comments:

Post a Comment