Most commonly mispronounced words in English?

Probably = pronounced "prolly" - drives me bonkers.

Any word with a "t" in! =pE.g. "Better" far too often because "bet'er"or if someone really can't speak: "beer" That coincidently is also often the cause for this mispronunciation.

I hear more people saying the word 'library' with out the r, producing the word 'libary. ' It drives me nuts! A phrase that I have heard misused most often is 'I could care less.' The correct phrase is 'I couldn't care less.

' I always feel bad correcting people, because these are such common mispronunciations.

It's prolly, 'Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity'. That or prolly the word 'about' in Canada.

Ya for you. And along those same lines gotchya drives me crazy. There is a whole extra sound in there!

I often hear "orienTATING" versus "orienting" and I've always thought the latter was the correct way (despite reading that both are Ok to be used).

Mispronounciation may vary from geography to geography.

Route" - this rhymes with either boot or doubt. And"Pronunciation" is not pronounced as "Pro noun ci a tion"!

One that really gets on my nerves is when people say nuke-you-ler instead of nuclear. Or pronounce the 's' on the end of Illinois!

I've got to agree with Exploding Pop Tart and say "liberry. " I must strenuously insist that I am not a "liberrian. " Also, my beloved, highly educated but hopelessly midwestern husband says "acrosst."

It drives me nuts because it makes him sound like a bumpkin, but I let it slide. Don't tell anybody! :).

There are lots of mispronounced words in English, one that isn't mispronounced is mute. Mute and moot have opposite meanings: Mute means silent, moot means debate, Moot House from where I used to live means debating house, hardly a place for silence.

Definitely is definitly spelled wrong a lot. What else is a weird one? Favorite?

Mute is supposed to be pronounced as "moot" and not "mute" which I think is a very common mispronounced word in English.

People are always saying 'woulda' instead of 'would of' but then a lot of words are said differently depending on whether you live in the north or the south. I am southern and say words like 'nothing' and 'anything' and 'to the' but my partner is northern and says 'nout' 'out' and 'ter'.

Words are often mispronounced in English because English is not a phonetic language. Some letters of the English alphabet can have up to seven different sounds! The pronunciation of words can also depend on whether you are a native speaker of English or a speaker of English as a foreign language.

Both of these will depend on the English speaking country you are from (England, America, Ireland, New Zealand etc) (see zoey24's comment as a good example of this) or the non-English speaking country you are from. Even in one English speaking country alone, for example, there are as many different pronunciations as there are regions! No wonder English is so difficult to learn!

Some of the most common mispronounced words are the 'ed' of the past participle - worked, stopped, confused etc. (If anyone wants to know the rule for this let me know and I will send it to you. ) The word 'vegetable' is another. The middle letter 'e' is silent and the letter 'a' is a very short 'i' sound.

I agree. "Prolly" just sounds ridiculous. My fiancee pronounces "comfortable" with all the proper consonants.Com-fort-a-bul, instead of comf-tur-bul.

One of the reasons she is so endearing.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.