Top 25 most mispronounced words in the UK Curiously
The top 25 most mispronounced words have been revealed, including quinoa, parliament - and even ‘pronunciation’ itself.
Other commonly used words which are often confused, and have multiple varieties of pronunciation, include GIF, cache and zoology. Jewellery, sherbet and mischievous also made the top 25 list. And 44 % of adults have had someone tell them they were getting a word wrong when saying it out loud - with a quarter corrected at least once a week. The research was commissioned by leading car manufacturer Hyundai, as it has teamed up with Seong-Jae a.k.a. Korean Billy, to embrace a change to the pronunciation of the brand name in the UK from the anglicised ‘Hy-un-dai’ to the global articulation ‘Hyun-day’.
In addition, 47% will research the correct pronunciation online via a search engine like Google and 29% say they often pick up the English Dictionary to see if the phrasing is correct. But according to OnePoll data, 42% will sometimes choose to mispronounce words, if it means making others laugh or to enable them to stick to what they know.
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