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Sunday, November 09, 2008

A few words often mispronounced...

I am NOT an expert in the English Language, but I have observed that the following few words are often mispronounced:

  • Tuition - often wrongly pronounced as tu-tion. The correct pronunciation should be tu-i-tion.
  • Condemn - often mispronounced as "kon"-dam. But, it should be correctly pronounced as "ken"-dam as in "Ken"-tucky.
  • Pronunciation - often mispronounced as "pro"-"now"-ciation. It should be "pre"-"none"-ciation. In fact, this word is also often wrongly spelt as "pronounciation". While the verb is "pronounce", the noun becomes "pronunciation". Note the difference in spelling.

I believe as long as we are willing to learn and learn to be better in the language we read, speak and write, we would realise that there are many common mistakes most of us make everyday. It is just a matter of whether we mind our language.

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