10 Words You’ve Probably Been Mispronouncing for Years
As you flip through the pages of your Merriam-Webster dictionary, you’ll find a plethora of words pronounced exactly how they’re written (according to standard English pronunciation rules). But you’ll occasionally happen upon an outlier whose pronunciation isn’t so obvious. In these cases, two distinct groups tend to form — people
who say the word correctly, and people who think they say the word correctly, even though they’re slightly off. We all learn words in different ways, and there’s no shame in discovering you’ve been mispronouncing a word you’ve been using for years. Maybe it’s a tricky loanword, or it’s a...
