Well, English is a language that can often confuse you and challenge you right? So there
are lot of words out there, which are prone to be mispronounced. Now mispronunciation
just takes the magic out of the language. So I have a list of common words, which gets
mispronounced. Well, I’m gonna tell you what is the correct pronunciation. Stay with me...
Hello, hello my name is Rima and welcome to yet another fantastic, funtustic lesson.
Did I just say funtustic? Well, I actually mispronounced fantastic, that’s right, that’s
what happens in the English language. Lot of words they don’t get pronounced properly
and it mean, people don’t really say them the way it is supposed to be said. So what
I’m gonna do is, I’m gonna take you through a list of words, which are very commonly mispronounced
and I’m gonna clarify and tell you the correct pronunciation, so that you do not make a mistake
and the next time when you’re speaking, people don’t snicker and laugh at you, so
the first one in my list, which you need to be very careful about is Comfortable. So I’ve
heard a lot of people pronouncing this word as Com-for-table. Now I agree there’s a
table in the word, it’s part of the word. But that doesn’t mean that you put out the
table. The correct pronunciation actually happens to be comfortable. Which means Cum-fur-tible
, where the A is actually subtle. You don’t give so much importance to the A , it’s
there but it’s just like kind of there or who knows not there, so it’s comfortable
and not com-for-table. And up next one of my favorites, which gets mispronounced soooo
many times. Now this word is actually a combination of two words, break and fast. Which indicates
the time, when you break your fast and eat some food. Which means early morning, because
the word is Breakfast. Now this is something we eat as a meal every morning, the first
meal of the day. But if you pronounce it as break-fast, because it’s like two words
combined together, now that is going to be wrong, wrong, wrong. The correct thing is
breakfast. So it will be like break-fist. Again the A in break and the A in fast need
not get so much importance in this case. They have to be pronounced very subtly. So breakfast
is breakfast and not break-fast, because frankly speaking you’re not really breaking anything
either slowly or fast. The next one I have for you is a word which is actually a month
of the year, to be precise the second month of the year. Its February. Ive heard a lot
of people mispronounce this in college, febuary . What is febuary? So when you say febuary
, you’re actually forgetting the R. So the correct pronunciation is February. That’s
right, so its February and not febuary , wherein you forget the R. So that’s three interesting
words for you, which can be mispronounced. There’s comfortable, breakfast, February.
And up next the star of the show, it is not Mort-gage, because you know it’s not like
mort the guy is trying to gage something. It actually happens to be Mortgage, wherein
the T is silent. So the pronunciation is Mor-gage. Now mortgage actually means a loan that one
has taken against any kind of property or land. And when you keep the T silent, that’s
when you get the pronunciation. Bang on. Coming up the next one, Oh my god now this one makes
me very very hungry. It’s Buffet with the T being silent and this word actually means
a spread of food. I’ve heard a lot of people call it buf-fet , but actually the T is a
sleeping member of the word, its silent there but not there, so you need to call it buffet
and the pronunciation is bu-fay. So that’s buffet for you like a spread of food, lots
of food at one go, wherein you self-serve yourself that’s what the word means. And
the next one is Mischievous. Someone whose very very naughty is called mischievous. I’ve
heard a lot of people actually forget this I here and pronounce this word as mis-che-vous
, no mis-che-vous is wrong. The correct pronunciation is Mis-chi-v-es, so it’s mischievous. Do
not forget to pronounce this I. I is very important, that’s right, so it’s not mis-che-vous.
It’s mischievous. Moving on the next one, every woman’s best friend, the jewel. Now
when you see W in a word, it’s very easy to pronounce this word as je-wel, because
of the W sound. But it’s actually jewel. That is jewel and this is exactly how this
word is pronounced. So a lot of words are derived from the word jewels. There’s jewelry,
so lot of people end up saying jew-ell-ery, which is actually not correct at all, it’s
actually jewel-ry. So that’s how jewelry is pronounced. And the next one is Reoccur,
now lot of people are tempted to call this re-occur. Its derived from a reoccurring event,
but that doesn’t mean, you have to pronounce it as re-occur. You have to use the word as
reoccur, because as you can notice, there is no O here and there is no extra C here
in the spelling, which is why it’s pronounced as rec-cur and the pronunciation can be written
down as re-cur. So reoccur means something that happens over and over again. So the next
one in my list now is, Bowl. I’ve heard so many people actually call it a bowl. Again
the W is responsible, now just because there’s a W in the word; you need not over pronounce
that one alphabet. Yu just have to make it subtle and call it bowl. So your pronunciation
goes like this, it’s actually bowl. And obviously you know bowl means a container
that can hold your food or fruit or something of the kind. So that’s bowl for you, because
trust me if you use the word bowl, it sounds really weird, it rhymes with howl and it reminds
me of a howling heinous. You don’t wanna go there, so keep it subtle, and call it bowl.
Its sounds really nice and dignified. A bowl of fruits is health as dinner. And the next
and the last one for today on my list is Plural. Now this means more than one. And I’ve heard
a lot of people make a mistake. They actually call out this word as plo-ral, which rhymes
with flo-ral and which is Oh, so not correct. So plural is actually pronounced as plu, so
you can actually put a O here ral. That’s the pronunciation for plural, which means
more than one and if you’re saying plural correct it today. So a lot of these words
I’ve heard are commonly mispronounced and they can actually create a bad impression,
if you don’t really know the English language. So be careful while using them. Now all of
these spellings I’ve written over here none of these are alternative spellings. Spellings
actually remain the same. This is just for your understanding, so if you’re finding
a particular word very difficult to pronounce. The best thing to do is break it up in terms
of sound like I had done for the word jewel. So it’s actually jewel, jool is for the
pronunciation, but do not ever spell it as this. This is purely and completely for your
understanding. So I hope that you enjoyed today’s lesson and I hope you do not make
a mistake with these particular words, which was so prone to mispronunciation. I hope you
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