![]() ![]() Two years later, I still try to sneak that word into conversations with him – pronounced wrongly, of course.Vocabulary Builder CourseWant to learn some silly-sounding words in English? Here’s a list of words that are fun to say out loud! Listen and repeat to practice pronunciation of these funny-sounding English words. I asked him to show me his book and turns out the word was ‘grudgingly’. My nephew was doing his English homework and asked me what ‘grood gingly’ meant. In Geography at school while we were doing glaciation Janet Waywell pronounced “Cwm” as Quim. I was 15 years old before I knew that picturesque wasn’t pronounced “picture-skew” and that my mum had been deliberately mispronouncing it for years!!! I still read it the wrong way □ I once got in an argument with a girl who swore that les miserablés was pronounced less miserables (as in people who weren’t quite as miserable as others) ![]() The replies to this remind me of when my youngest wanted to watch Harry Potter and the fell off a stone. ![]() Confidential” but pronounced as if it was French Lá Confidentialle and that’s what I call it to this day. It gets cute when paired with the bat voice /ANW6rXAmtGĪ friends mum thought she was a bit special, Hyacinth Bucket type and were round there one night and she said “I’ve got you a movie to watch. My grandfather in the 80’s referred to the new box that could heat food as the Mackerel Weaver.īoth my girls have said “my” instead of “I” or “I’m”. I went to dinner with a girl who ordered the turbot and pronounced it like a car accessory. The other day my 5 year old heard me talking about coffee and asked me who Captain Chino is. My kids love to visit their Nana in the crunchyside. My way sounded much more exciting, like the super bowl for kids who’d had too many sweets. I remember being very disappointed when I found out hyperbole isn’t pronounced ‘hyper-bowl’. Somehow he had never heard the word or at least not connected the spoken and written word. I knew someone who had to read the word antelope out in a presentation. The climbing plant outside our backdoor is still called a Vagina Creeper (Virginia), much to the chagrin of our 18yr old who coined it as a toddler. We definitely prefer “chihoo-haha” to the usual pronunciation – just for the sheer joy of it, and the clip got people thinking of other mispronounced words, like these excellent efforts. My son reading the word ‘chihuahua’ reminds me that some words can be significantly improved when said phonetically. When Twitter funny man and successful composer Nick Harvey‘s son spotted the word “chihuahua” in a book, he gave it a good try, and got there in the end, via some wonderful and logical attempts. Just about everybody will have stumbled across a word that they struggle to pronounce correctly, sometimes without even realising it – like David Cameron trying to say “Sorry”, which he hilariously mispronounces as “It was the right thing to do.” It’s easily done. ![]()
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