![]() I said it’s so cool to live so close to such an upper echelon Opera House. ![]() The other day, I was talking to David about the Metropolitan Opera. We’re looking to hire the best people who are in the upper echelon of their fields. If you’re unfamiliar with the word Echelon, it means a group or a level within an organization or a larger group. So that word only has one pronunciation listed in the dictionary and it’s Echelon. So he said ‘Echelon’ with the CH sound, also a good guess, also not the way that word is pronounced. I typed it in and I found another guy mispronouncing this word, only mispronouncing it in a different way. I just went to Youglish just to see if I could find anyone else saying ‘Echelon’. If you want to know more about them, if you want to learn them for American English, i’ll put a link to my playlist that goes over them below. They match up to the sounds of English because the letters of English don’t. By the way, if you’re wondering what the heck these symbols are, they’re the international phonetic alphabet symbols. So the first word today is going to be…Įchelon. But there would be no way to know that just by looking at the word. In this case, it’s the SH sound, not the K sound. Because the CH can be pronounced K or CH or SH. So it’s actually really easy for native speakers to mispronounce a word. Someone who reads a lot may learn lots of words that they’ve never heard pronounced. So we can see a word and guess the pronunciation, and maybe be wrong. The letters do not correspond one-to-one with the sounds. How is that? How is it that Americans mispronounce words in their own language? It’s because sometimes, we learn words from reading, not from hearing them used. And I saw a native speaker completely mispronounce a word.Įxcuse me? I actually had to go back and turn on the subtitles to make sure he was saying the word I thought he was saying, but mispronouncing. It was a documentary, Ugly Delicious episode 2. Today, we’re going to go over 14 of the most commonly mispronounced words in American English. Americans can’t even get these words right. There are some words that are just hard to pronounce. Which English Words Do Native Speakers Mispronounce? YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video.
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