100 Words You Say Wrong (Common pronunciation mistakes in English)
Here are 100 words that people often say wrong in English. Do you make any of these common pronunciation mistakes?
English pronunciation is a real challenge for people learning English, because the spelling is so irregular. Just think of all those silent letters...
If you sometimes say these words incorrectly, don't worry - you're not alone! It is very common to mispronounce these words.
Please note:
When I say "British English/pronunciation", I'm referring to RP (received pronunciation). When I say "American English/pronunciation", I'm referring to General American. Obviously there are many other English accents and dialects, but it's impractical to look at all of them in a video like this.
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Great to see you again. It's been quite a while. I just want to let you know that I recently registered for your English vocabulary course on Udemy, and I truly enjoy the content. I think it's one of the best English courses on the internet. Love & Appreciation all the way from Johannesburg,South Africa.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you're enjoying it :).
Yay! I will sigh as well. Ta for recommendation!
We, In América Speak American English..
We Find The British Pronunciation Annoying
But it's the original 😊 The truth hurts, doesn't it.
How nice to have you back, Max! 💟We really missed your lessons. I've added some new entries to my notebook of mispronounced words. Here are some that were already there: southern, vehicle, exhibit, bargain, celtic, binoculars, pseudonym, scarce, Holmes.
Thank you! 😃 And those are good words too! I'll keep them in mind in case I make a similar video :).
Thanks, Max. This lesson is amazing and helpful, especially for ESL students.
Thanks Max for your lessons! I love it.
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Thanks a lot for investing your time on your KZhead channel. It's always a great and pleasant (and instructive) moment.
It's not that I don't know how to pronounce basic English words, its the way you speak which is so unique and beautiful . I watch it to get entertained
she is very captivating.
thank you, Max. Much helpful.
Hi Max, glad to see you back again. I missed your lessons. One thing that is very contraintuitive in English pronunciation is the way how words with many syllabels are pronounced, like the examples you had in your video: mischievous, photography, thermometer. I would find it very helpful if you could prepare a lesson with such words. I'm sure, I pronounce most of them wrong.
Yes... unfortunately we have to learn each word individually :S.
I love this lady.prefect instructor.
Two words that I've noticed are being mispronounced more and more frequently these days are "contribute" and "homage". Thanks for trying to preserve the beautiful English language!
Very good job as usual .Thanks a lot for your efforts.
As a brazilian english speaker (attempting...), these tips are super valueble. Thanks, Max!
Oh valuable. Correct and post before you send, there are options in the device.
Thank you a lot for the lesson, and welcome back! 😊
Thank you! 😃
thank you a lot ❤ especially for the “heir”
Thanks, i have serious problems with pronunciation, this lesson is very important 👍
Hello Max. It's nice to have you back. we all missed you Greetings from Leipzig, Germany
It is an amazing video with a lot of learning. Frankly speaking, pronunciation of words has been such a tough challenge for people whose native language is not English because of the linguistic interference of other languages. I watched the video from A to Z and I too much learned from you. Keep on sharing your valuable experiences. From Mozambique.
Many thanks for your kind words :).
Thanks, very interesting and knowledgeable, Great!
So glad that teacher Max is still giving courses. It's a good news for me
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Thanks a lot ..i like your calm and amazing way of teaching
Welcome back professor Max, you are special, you have allowed many people from all over the world to learn English. I want to report this to the australian government. With all my best wishes to you. Thanks, a hug. Alessandro from Italy
Thank you very much, Alessandro :).
Really exciting lecture. Thank you teacher.❤❤❤
So glad you are back, Max! 😃😃😃
Hello! I'm glad to watch you on KZhead again. I hope you are well! Thanks for this fantastic video! It's very interesting and useful, as always.😘🌹🥰
Thank you so much, Diana!
So long no see Max!!! I hope my writing is correct. I just want to thank you for all Your good lessons,I don't miss any of them.God Bless You Max.
Thank you for your support! (We actually say "long time no see", but otherwise your writing is correct! 👍)
I love learning the difference between British and American English. There's a fun contrast between nuisance and coupon. also 8:47 bussy :)
Dear Max I really enjoy watching your videos, thank you very much 🙏🙏⚘️⚘️
Amazing work. Thanks a lot from south east Melbourne ❤❤❤
Also some confusing of pronunciation: island vs. Ireland vs. Iceland. Thanks for video. Kind Regards Markku
Hello Max, welcome back to KZhead ☺. I hope you're well and that you'll have time to make other videos. Thumbs up, good job !
I hope so too! And thank you!
This sharing is very good, hope can do more in the future. Thank you.
Hi I am an American and this was refreshing. Thank you.
Max....best english coach in the world.
I thank you so much! Wow ! I don't have any word to describe how much you help me to improve my English. May God bless you ❤
You're very welcome!
Max is a very pleasant person. Very easy to understand and her smile makes her, yup, very pleasant.
Your Australian accent is easier to be understood by Spanish people. You are absolutely the Best. Many thanks indeed for you being you.
Thank you very much to our great English teacher, Mrs. Max, for your very useful, great English KZhead videos. Orhan Baki, from Şenlikköy- Florya/Istanbul- Türkiye.
Advanced advarnced sorry
Listening again and again helps so much
Wonderful presentation ❤
Thank you very much, you have actually helped me a lot. l used to pronounce most of the words you have taught us wrongly.
Very helpful, thanks.
Thourought enjoyed it. Thanks.
Thanks a lot I enjoyed the video very much
Thank you SO MUCH for this - love perfect English, hate the lazy 'mistakes'. I am sick of the 'ng' being left out (for the Americanised 'in' ') at end of words such as 'singing', 'walking', etc!
Happy to see you again Max.I missed you.
I like the lesson. Thank you very much.
It would have been good to mention 'area' next to 'idea' :) Other examples that come to mind: corps/corpse, coup (d'état), finite/infinite. In general, people whose native language applies stress mostly on penultimate syllable tend to apply it the same way while speaking English, so they would stress all these words incorrectly: attribute, attributed, request, response. This holds true especially in tech. Myself, I usually forget where to stress longer words, such as 'administrative', and need to double-check.
Thanks! I'll keep those in mind for other videos :).
I benefited a lot from your pronunciation of the words. Thank you very much, a fan of the English language from Saudi Arabia . شكرا جزيلا🤣 أنت وسيمة وجوهرة
Большое спасибо, Вам
Hey Max, it is an exhaustive list of mispronounced words. People often mispronounce words like nephew, sew, answer etc.
Dear Lady, you are a fountain of civility and wisdom!!! I'm looking forward to listening to everything you are willing to teach!!😇
Thank you very much for your support :).
Fantastic way of teaching!
Just discovered you, you're great! I've always been fascinated not only by UK vs. American pronunciations, but reginal accents in countries. Take "business" that you covered. In the Deep South of the US, it may even be called "bidness." I was born and grew up in the Mid-Atlantic of the US, which is pretty much known for having little accent compared to the rest of the US. Anyway, darn those English with their silent letters, can you all Crownsters just clean them up by removing them to help the non-native speakers :)
Thanks very much! And yes, I definitely think that some spelling reform is in order!
I have not started the video yet. I consider myself very literate so I will watch for a while (longer if I find any) and see if you have any words that I pronounce incorrectly. Edit, I checked your video and you pronounced the words correctly. Well done. (that is rare)
Max beautiful teacher thanks for your efforts
Good to see you back with new KZhead video after a long time -- please do it frequently -- I am your fan and a student from India
Excellent video! I'm familiar with all those IPA symbols so this was fun to watch. On a related topic, a local radio host in here San Diego had a long-standing show called "A Way With Words" where people could call in and talk about their local dialects and so forth, and eventually the host wrote a book with the title "There Is No Zoo in Zoology" which I instantly had to have, being constantly irritated by the dumb mistakes so many people made so often. In the above case, the author pointed out that "Zoology" is a combination of "Zoa," the Greek word for "Life" and "ology" meaning "the study of" as you probably know, but when even employees at our famous Zoo would make this mistake I had to do something about it! So I bought this book and several others, including "Is There a Cow in Moscow?" (no, because the Russian is Mosk-VA), "What in the Word?" and "The Accidents of Style." Sadly, the author, Charles Harrington Elster, passed away a while back, but these books are still available on line and I had no problems acquiring them if you're interested. My name is Jeff Wells and I'm guilty of being an especially annoying Grammar Nazi online, so be careful what you write ;)
Interesting! I didn't know that about "zoology". (But rest assured I've been pronouncing it correctly :D.)
Glad to hear it! Another campaign of mine (it's okay, I'm retired and relatively harmless) is to hunt down and slay all these wild apostrophes that show up everywhere these days, not just in America either much to my surprise.
Dear Teacher Max, You have a gift from God to teach. It is a great jewel you received from our Father. If I have a teacher like you with for private lessons, I would not need an IPA alphabet. But as I am alone in my country, I am not accompanied by English native speakers, IPA is absolutely the must tool in studying English.
Thanks for the video.
Good. You have a nice easy style. Liked it. Thank you and well done.
Thank you for your kind words :).
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Thanks for sharing
I appreciate so so much,thankyou
I admire your intelligente with words, and I must say that I developed my pronunciation learning from you ❤.
I'm very flattered! And thank you for watching!
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Thank you very much! And all the best for your language learning journey!
With bundle of thanks ❤❤❤❤
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Gracias. Desde Chile, muy buenas las correcciones para pronunciar mejor. Saludos
Opportunity, situation, latitude, adjudge, adjoin, debris, debut, luxury, almond, education, intestine, entrepreneur.....these are a few words I want to know the right pronunciations of. Thanks for your guidance👍
Good words! I'll keep those in mind :).
Hi Max....love your lessons.....
Thank you so much!!
Cảm ơn Chị rất nhiều thank you so much my dear friend
Nice lesson.Thanks.
Many thanks!
Thank you, this was brilliant, the word history is sometimes promised wrongly too
Yes, that's true!
I'am a student of 63 years old from Lima Peru.I think this class is very important specially when you travel to U SA.Thans you are nice!!!!.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi, it is great to teach both countries accent; it helps a lot great Job!
Thank you! 😃
Very helpful indeed. Next lesson please include the correct pronunciation of counties in the world.
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Thanks a lot Max‼️❤ Personally, this video Is Awesome 👌🏼👍🏼🙏🏼 I'd like another one focused on the same topic👏🏼🎉🤩🎊👏🏼 I'd really appreciate that 😊
Thank you, Cecilia! I'll try :).
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Thank you very much!
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Hi, Max! So glad to see you back on KZhead. Thank you for the video!❤
I'm glad to be back! :)
@@EnglishwithMax Madam,I'm happy seeing you back again. Madam,is it correct? 1) She filed a lawsuit against her husband claiming adultery.
@@fongbeng9072 Yes, it's correct. :)
it is absolutely great - the lesson, i mean. Thanks a lot. Regards - Maria
Thank you! 😃
Hi Max! My first comment on your KZhead page is to tell you that I am glad to see you are back after long months of absence. I hope you’re back on a regular basis😊. Au fait, je voulais te dire que j'ai eu l'occasion de voir la vidéo où tu parles français et je dois dire que j'ai été agréablement surpris par la perfection de ton français et entre autre l'accent, chose difficile à maitriser surtout pour les natifs anglais. So I wonder if you’re still practicing Molière’s language because if I’m not mistaken you have a saying that says... If you don’t use it, you lose it
Oui, elle parle parfaitement français.
@@sylvieleboucherf D'après ce que j'ai pu écouter, pratiquement le niveau d'un natif. Juste un léger accent à peine perceptible;) From what I could listen, practically the level of a native. Just a slight accent barely noticeable;)(English translation, because after all we are here for the English😉)
Thank you, you're very kind :). I don't speak it much these days, and it is, indeed, getting a bit rusty!
@@EnglishwithMax You're welcome! Je vais continuer ce message en français ce qui te permettra de le pratiquer un peu et d'enlever cette petite rouille qui s'installe sur ton français, ce qui est dommage car tu as dû investir beaucoup de temps et de travail pour arriver à un si bon niveau :))
Thank you !!!😎
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as a turkish you help me learn english thank you ❤
I'm italian and my English is very sloppy, and you can imagine my pronunciation... is worse!!! Your accent and way of speaking are very easy to understand, and I like the fact that you make the comparison between British and American English Very nice class!!! thank you Max 🙂
My pleasure! And thank you for your kind words :).
@@EnglishwithMax I agree that it is nice to have the comparison between British and American English. I am a proponent of students choosing one over the other before beginning to learn English and never going to the other so as to not confuse themselves or anyone else. I wish I could do the British English well enough to give both examples but I am afraid I would butcher the British English unfortunately and never on purpose. I like the sound of British English but am all American in speech! Thanks for your videos!
Thank you very much🙏🏾, a great contribution for non-native English speakers like me. I never forget my shock on the day I learned the correct pronunciation of the two words … Lingerie and Paradigm… There’re many others I still need to learn. English is sometimes strange, do you agree 😂?
@@netsanetfirdu9117 Indeed! And one of my next videos is on "lingerie" :D.
Thank you for your time. you are an excellent teacher.your method is very easy.see you soon.😅
Helpfull video 👍
Beautiful !
THANKS TEACHER
I am an American and I pronounce words like they do in the Uk. That is how I was taught. During spelling class either a teacher thought I was being a smart ass or gave me extra points. Like Colour/Color. We have to remember if your an American and your family cane from the UK then we are family. Lots of Americans still sound like they are from the UK.
Glad you’re back 😊❤💐
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Hello namesake!))) Glad to see you again !!!
Hey, thanks!
All the things I pronounce in difficult in here thanks a lot
Great and helpfull lesson as always.Regardless your level you always learn something from Max.
Thanks for you