hello everyone and welcome back to love English today we're going to be looking at business
English words that are commonly mispronounced but which it is important to get right
so we're going to look at 15 business English words with examples let's get started [Music]
number one is the word schedule now there's a bit of controversy about this word because technically
the correct pronunciation in British English is schedule and in U.S English it's schedule
however to be honest with you I think that mostly now in England and in Great Britain we say the US
One the US is taking over and I think we mostly say schedule it's up to you if you want to say the
correct British one if you're here if you want to that's absolutely fine but it would either
be schedule or schedule can we schedule a meeting for this Friday can we schedule a meeting for this
Friday the next one is entrepreneur entrepreneur I expect lots of you have had a problem with
saying that at some point entrepreneur you have to pronounce the second R even some native speakers
however will sometimes drop it but it should be there the ER sound at the end is long entrepreneur
she's a successful entrepreneur number three advertisement it is not advertisement
I've heard advertisement said a lot but it's actually advertisement advertisement did you
see the advertisement in the paper for the new receptionist I would mostly say
however now that we do say advert on the whole advert or advertisement but mostly advert is
the one that is commonly used next one is this tricky word again let's try it again
entrepreneurial this is the adjective she's really entrepreneurial she's really entrepreneurial
entrepreneurship entrepreneurship there's so much entrepreneurship amongst the young people the
next one is Gage which means test or measure which we're frequently doing in the business
world we might need to gauge someone's reaction we might need to gauge the market it's like test or
measure obviously it looks like gouge but in fact it's gauge to gauge number seven globalization
globalization quite a lot of syllables in that word globalization globalization that's where
the stress is globalization next one is inventory inventory when you take stock of something when
you count how much you have of things that would be an inventory it's not an inventory although
it looks like that and the stress is on the first syllable inventory we need to take an inventory of
the stock we have next one is negotiable and I'll also include the noun negotiation negotiable is an
adjective you might say is this price negotiable but the noun is a negotiation can we have a
negotiation about this can we have a negotiation about this would she enter into a negotiation
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is Corporate corporate again I've heard corporate all sorts but it's corporate the corporate world
is a tough one and business is cutthroat the corporate world is a tough one and business can
be cut throat next one is consultant consultant I have an appointment to see an I.T consultant later
I have an appointment to see an I.T consultant later next one is corporation which means a
business the big corporations such as McDonald's Amazon it means big businesses corporations
but the next one is cooperation which is completely different to cooperate or
cooperation means to work together do you think we can cooperate about this
I'm hoping they will be open to cooperating with us so it's completely different to Corporation
Corporation is the business a big business cooperation is to work together to cooperate the
next one is commercial again it's a sha sound in there commercial I used to like this business when
it was small and friendly but now it's become too commercial in the U.S commercial means advert so
be careful of that difference thanks for watching and we'll see you again on love English bye