Hello welcome to British English with Joel & Lia today we've got a video
for you ten words that you're probably pronouncing incorrectly
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lovely things anyway onwards so the first word that you might pronounce wrong
is quinoa often people say Kin-oah Quin-oa to be honest even English
people get this one wrong when quinoa first became a trendy thing here in
London I thought is called Quin-oa. I always knew it was quinoa
did you, no bragging, no bragging but yeah correct way of
saying it is quinoa quinoa on the topic of QU words
I've noticed people say queue incorrectly as well yeah
oh that's spelt so hard, it isn't spelt how it sounds so it's spelt, q u e u e. it's
pronounced Que not Queue and quinoa made me think of that! Good
the second word that people pronounce incorrectly is almond some people
pronounce that aLmond because it has an L after the A which makes sense but it's
not pronounced that way it's got a silent L and sometimes you do even hear people
say aLmond I say that I am guilty of saying aLmond yeah have you got any
almond milk? Whereas I would say have you got any ah-mond
milk that's the correct way of saying it because Joel is clever because I've got
glasses on since Joel is wearing glasses everything he says is correct and
everything I say is merely incorrect okay number three is Leicester. Leceister is a town in the
UK it's also in a tube stop name in London, Leicester Square so often people say
Ly-chester yeah Lesester yeah it's quite a hard one to pronounce because
there's lots of letters in there for quite a simple word it should really be
spelled L e c e s t e r but it's not yeah extra letters put in there when the E and
the I when two vowels come after each other as well it's like leiiiicester so the correct way to pronounce
this word in British English is Lester Lester so here's a boy saying it Lester
and here's a girl saying it Lester. Boys and girls can benefit from this channel.
here's a 26 year-old saying it, Leicester, Here's a 54 year old saying it we should make a video like how to pronounce Leicester
in every age group and here's a newborn saying it. the fourth word we have for you is yolk I had a year 4
teacher when I was about eight years old and she taught us all that it was
pronounced yoLk and I being the precocious eight year old that I was
like no it's yolk and she was like it is YoLk so then we were forced to call it
yoLk. No but she's wrong yolk is another word that's got a silent L
a bit like Almond yeah yolk and salmon salmon yeah although we have a friend that calls it saLmon.
It's really cute! It is cute, but wrong! She's from Serbia... I'm kidding. Well you're not kidding, she IS from Serbia.
moving on! I didn't mean it like that, but she is from Serbia.
number five is choir so the word choir is another word that's spelt not how it
sounds yeah c h o i r choir. It doesn't make any sense but the C and H is
not pronounced Ch, like you think it would be it's K, choir
and yeah you don't really pronounce the O and the I separately do you? it's such a
weird one it's weird not ch-y-or
it's choir choir so the sixth word that people pronounce incorrectly is data
data is priced differently in Australia the UK and America let alone anywhere
else so you might hear people say Dah-da or da-ta
so Americans would they yeah say da-dah, whereas Australian dah-tah
but Brits say day-ta, data which I think sounds really nice and friendly or is it quite geeky?
you got any data on that? ah I got some really good data information. If you have a slight
regional accent maybe cockney or London you might say data
drop the T drop the T on it there is no right or wrong way to pronounce it
out of those three ways if you're learning American English then go with
da-dah but seeings as you're probably learning
British English because you're watching this video it's data so the seventh word
is niche (neesh). Niche for those who don't know means a very specific thing
so for instance having a niche interest if you're a bird watcher you're
interested in a very specific type of bird so you might not hear it that often
I don't think the word is thrown around very regularly but it's good to know
that it's pronounced niche and not nichy nitch in America I think they say nitch
So Niche. So number 8, we thought
we'd throw in a couple of names here, particularly Irish names
which, we know Ireland isn't technically in the UK, but there are tonnes of Irish people in London
and in England. Not just London, definitely, we hear them all the time in London so we thought it might be useful
for you to know.
So some really difficult names that we've come across are
the name Shaun, that can be spelled like this, or this, or even this!
which is confusing, but just know that they're all
pronounced Shaun. The name Kieran, can be written like this
or this or even probably this. If you are interested in Irish names
that are hard to pronounce, we've actually made a whole video on that because we're really interested in these names as well and so check that out, we've linked it up here
in the cards or in the description. Number 9 is turquoise.
Turquoise is a hard word to pronounce because it's got the U
O and I next to each other so again
loads of vowels, after a Q and you're like.... ??? What's going on!
Yeah, again it might not be one that you use very
much but it's a good one to know, because also, it's quite clever if you can name a colour as turquoise instead of just blue or green.
Yep, expanding your vocabulary, with the word turquoise. Once I was describing someone's eyes
and I was like, "oh they're aqua-marine"
"Oh they're duck egg blue" just pepper that into the conversation
Another colour, which, we haven't prepared this one, that's hard to pronounce is Mauve. What a word!
such a weird spelling as well M A U V E.
Mauve. Here's a girl saying it: Mauve. here's a boy saying it: mauve.
slight difference. So the 10th word and I'm sure we've gone beyond 10! We're probably on 50 now, but the 10th official word that we've prepared for you is
the word tube. Tube, as in, the London Tube or just
a tube shaped thing. Or YouTube
which you're on right now. Lots of people will pronounce it 'toob' or 'toobey'
Also people pronounce it 'toobebeby' lots of our students say
'toobey'. toobey or not toobey. Tube. SO other words with that sound.
Tuesday. Or the word Tuna. Technically I think they should be pronounced 'tube'
or 'tuesday' or 'tuna'. But in England we often pronounce TU
as CH. yeah, don't know why! Tube = choob.
Cheese, choice, chess, this sound often replaces the TU sound, it's just sort of laziness.
But that doesn't mean to say that it's incorrect, in fact, most people say I'm getting on the tube and you'll stand out more if you're trying
to learn British English and you're saying 'tube', so just try to get in the habit of using
the CH sound.
when there's a TU. That's all we've got for you guys.
We've got some other videos peppered into this video, if you wanna check them out. We've got an American and English pronuncation video
Which we'll link in the description as well as the Irish video we mentioned and also
the BBC English video which is all to do with the U sound.
yeah, like we just spoke about. Tube Tuna that sort of thing.
Duke! The Duke of Edinburgh.
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