100 Most Often Mispronounced Words on YourDictionary.com
October 19, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Communication, Reference
Don’t you hate it when you look or sound stupid, ignorant or uneducated? Maybe you don’t even realize you’re doing it.
One of the things that I notice frequently among those immediately around me is when people mispronounced or misuse words or grammar.
The YourDictionary.com site has an article titled "100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English". I’m sure out of 100 there are probably a couple I’ve messed up at least once. How will you do?
I found this site thanks to Nikki Katz Stumbling it earlier and me seeing it. Great find!
Guilty as charged a couple of years ago when I realized I was always saying “for all intensive purposes”.
This is what my computer’s dictionary tells me about “herb”:
“Although herb has always been spelled with an h, pronunciation without it was usual in British English until the 19th cent. and is still standard in the U.S.”
There are others in this list that do not appear completely correct as well.