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Words Americans Mispronounce

How is it that Americans mispronounce words in their own language. Rachel from Rachel’s English.com says it’s because we learn words from reading, not from hearing how they’re used. “English is not a phonetic language,” she says. “The letters do not correspond one-to-one with the sound. So we can see a word and guess the pronunciation, and maybe be wrong.” In the following video, Rachel brings us the most commonly mispronounced words by Americans in the English language.

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