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  • Pronunciation is the soul and heart of a language, in today's lesson we're going to be talking

  • about the pronunciation of the most, some of the most important words in English language

  • that people mispronounce. Ladies and gentlemen a very warm welcome my name is Hridhaan, and

  • I welcome you to my channel with a very big heart, without further ado let's get started,

  • Word number one that we have on the list iswomen”. Now how do we pronounce this

  • word? A lot of people pronounce this word quite incorrectly, because this word has m-e-n

  • in it and m-e-n is pronounced as men. So people pronounce this word as wo-men, wo-men but

  • that is not the correct pronunciation the correct pronunciation is /we-min/ wo-men

  • changes to /we-min/. one more time we-min. Next one in the list is comfortable how do

  • people mispronounce it? Because we have table in this word, a table, table the word in itself

  • has a different pronunciation. People think that they have to choose the same pronunciation

  • in the word comfortable and so they pronounce it like this comfort-table, comfort-table

  • but that is not right. How do we go about this one? It is, it is tbl, /kam-f-tbl/, comfortable,

  • comfortable not comfort-table. Next one in the list is garbage. You have seen garbage,

  • you know we've got to, we've got, we got in our societies there's one, one area where

  • all the garbage goes, but one important thing to note, notice here is the pronunciation

  • of b-a-g-e, that people get confused and as they pronounce the word and they call it bage.

  • Garbage, but the trick in the pronunciation of this word is, first of all you remove the

  • ‘r’ and then after that you remove the ,agesound here and it becomes

  • writing ‘J’ so that you understand it, better it becomesbij’, ‘aa-bij

  • garbage, one more time it becomes garbage. So whenever you, you see a garbage next time

  • in future it is not garbage, it is garbage, absolutely please do make sure that you pronounce

  • it time and again after me so that you have a continuous practice of the right way of

  • pronouncing it. Next one is cloth and clothes. How do people mispronounce it? You have a

  • piece of fabric that is called a cloth, but you have clothes you have different pieces

  • of, the things that you wear on a daily basis, for example this shirt is not a cloth but

  • comes in the category of clothes, this jeans that I'm wearing it's not a cloth because

  • it's not just a mere piece of fabric it is particularly trimmed clothes that I'm wearing

  • so not cloth as an enormous fabric but a piece of a garment that we have available. When

  • it comes to pronunciation, what, how do we go about it? Please repeat after me, law-th,

  • cloth it is not clothe, it is cloth, one more time cloth. Now let's come to the garments

  • that we wear on daily basis, it is notklothit is clothes, how do we go about this one?

  • The word, the sound ‘o’ here is pronounced in the same way as the word low, low-high,

  • in the same manner we pronounce this sound, clothes not clothes it islowsound

  • in this so it becomes clothes. Next one in the list isFebruary’, it is the second

  • month of the year and you have to say let's say a date, I was born on 10th of February

  • a lot of people say, ‘ferburyor February and they get confused a lot in how to pronounce

  • theruhsound in the word and what is the correct version, I'm gonna write it for

  • you please have a look please repeat after me, ‘ru-ari’, Feb-ru-ari. February, not

  • February because it doesn't come out right and not furvery also because here we have

  • the ‘b’ sound and it becomes /Feb-ru-arinot February or furvery for that matter. Let's

  • move on to the next one now M-O-N-K, I leave it to you to guess, the ‘O’ sound in the

  • word monk, m-o-n-k is pronounced asuhit is not ‘o’ because a lot of people

  • say monk, but who is a monk, who is a monk for that matter? A monk is somebody who lives,

  • who lives in a temple especially a Tibetan temple and they worship God and they help

  • people with spirituality that person is called a monk. Now how do we pronounce it correctly

  • it is /muh-nk/ monk not monk. Next one in the list is d-e-n-g-u-e, it is a disease of

  • very bad disease wherein you get a lot of high fever and people go to the doctor and

  • even the doctors pronounce it miss, incorrectly how do we pronounce it correctly? it is not

  • dang-yu’, it is in English language, ‘e’, /deng-ee/ it is not dengue, it is

  • dengue so the next time if somebody catches high fever and that person has probably been

  • bit by a, let's say mosquito, it is not dang-yu it is dengue, as you say it correctly in English

  • language. Next one is data or data, now this is one of the most important confusions that

  • people have in mind, now let's clear that confusion a data is a piece of information,

  • a computer stores data, a camera stores data of your pictures and videos, but please do

  • not confuse it with data, it is data, it isday-ta’, data not data. This takes us

  • to the next one, what do you have first thing in the morning, is that break-fast or is that

  • break-first? it is a very commonly used word and very commonly and easily mispronounced

  • as well, how do we go about this one? In the wordbreak’, we have a separate word

  • in English language and that is pronounced as break, but that word does not have the

  • same pronunciation in this word the break turnsbrehkin this word so, I'm just

  • gonna write it here for you it becomesehnot ‘a’, brehk. So

  • the first thing for us to understand is, it is not break, it is brehk and the next thing

  • is fast, now why do people call it fast, they stretch it because we have a word in English

  • language that is the opposite of slow, fast and people think that that this word has the

  • same pronunciation from the word fast but that again is incorrect, it is not fast, it

  • shortens up and it becomesuhst’, it becomesuhsound so now this word is

  • no more break-fast it is /brehk-fuhst/, please repeat after me, breakfast so the first thing

  • that you have in the morning is a breakfast, not break-fast. Next one is, what do you have

  • when you go to a restaurant in the end of your meal, is this a desert or a dessert?

  • Well that's one of the most confused words as well, when it comes to this sweet dish

  • that you have in the end of your meal, it is called, I'm gonna write it for you here

  • /di-zuhtnot desert, it is dessert. Next one is, hmmlet's say you want to grow

  • a plant and you want to - a seed under the ground, what is it called, is it burry or

  • is it Barry? it is /be-reeand not Burry. Please remember this it is not Barry, it is

  • not burry, it is bury. Next one isdebris’, what is debris? Now one of the biggest errors

  • in pronunciation here is people pronouncing the sound ‘s’ with this word, which is

  • where it goes wrong, it is not debris, it is /deb-reeand we put the ‘S’ sound

  • in the silent mode here and it becomes /deb-ree/, so the next time when you talk about an accident

  • a sudden accident that happens it is not deb-ris, it is /deb-ree/. Next one is very, very important,

  • have you got a car at home or a scooter or let's say for that matter a scooty at home?

  • Well that is very commonly mispronounced, it is not vehicle, it is vehicle. Let's do

  • it together, please repeat after me, it's /uh-klvehicle, vehicle not vehicle, we

  • do not go with the, with the spelling of the word we go with the phonemic script, it is

  • vehicle. The next one is the third day in the week, is it wed-nes-day or Wens-day? The

  • quick trick is you remove the ‘D’ sound and you add the ‘Z’ sound here and it

  • becomes /Wenz-day/ not wed-nes-day. So let's do it one more time Wednesday, the next time

  • when you talk about the third day in the week, please say Wednesday and not wed-nes-day.

  • I hope you got it right, please continue speaking it loudly so that your throat gets used to

  • the next, to the right sound. The next one is a disease where you're not able to breathe

  • properly, what is that called, is that as-th-ma or is that something else? Well it definitely

  • is something else. We do not pronounce thethsound here, we pronounce it like

  • this, please repeat after me, ‘ma’, /as-ma/ not as-tha-ma, we say as-ma. The next one

  • is jewellery. A lot of people wear jewellery, different accessories these days and especially

  • it could be of a metal, gold for that matter silver as well or platinum but how do we pronounce

  • that piece of accessory that is made up of all of these elements, is it jewellery or

  • is it /jool-ree/, it is jewellery and not jewellery. So make sure when the next time

  • you talk about something else it is not jewellery, it is /jool-ree/. Quickly moving on to the

  • next one, we have, ‘onion’, a vegetable, it is not onion, a lot of people misunderstand

  • it with the sound ‘o’ in the beginning, it is not onion, it isuhsound, onion.

  • So the vegetable that a lot of people like and dislike eating is onion not onion. The

  • next one is the dry fruit that is quite famous, people actually have it in winters, but the

  • trick to pronounce it is, by removing the ‘L’ sound in the word and we say /ah-mnd/,

  • not almond it is, /ah-mnd/. The next one is, well have you ever been to a concert and in

  • that concert you need something, it is actually also called a pass to enter it, this word

  • is a replacement of that one and it is called coupon, it is not coupon, a lot of people

  • say that, it is /koop-on/ please repeat after me, coupon. Next one in the list is, tomorrow.

  • What is the day called after this day in the present? It is definitely called tomorrow

  • but a lot of times people mispronounce it as tomorrow, but it is not tomorrow, it is

  • it's ‘ro’, ‘maw-ro’, ‘/tu-maw-ro/. One more time tomorrow. This takes us to the

  • next one, pasta or pasta, it is, imagine you pass an exam and you say pass and you just

  • basically have to add a ‘tahto it and it becomespass-tah’. Please remember

  • to pronouncethsound correctly it is not it is not ‘t’ it is pass-tah, a lot

  • of people say pasta they usethsound in replacement oftah’. It is pasta.

  • Next one is, the third last month of the year, what is that called, is similar to February,

  • what is this month? It is October, not ak-tuber, let's do it together, together please, ‘toh-b’,

  • /ok-toh-b/, October. Where do we put the stress, is it October, is it October or is it October?

  • It is October the first part ok-toh-b’. The second last in the list is quite similar

  • to the last one, but first we'll do the last one in the word, ‘p-r-o-n-o-u-n-c-e’,

  • we have the wordnounwhich comes from one of the grammar elements of English language

  • and people actually use this word to pronounce the second last one. The first one, ah, the

  • last one is pronounce, let's do together, pronounce, nouns, announce, renounce, pronounce

  • one more time pronounce, and a lot of people when they pronounce the second last word they

  • saypronounceiation’, pronunciation but if you look closely in the bigger word there

  • isnunnot noun and thus we write and say /pr-uh-nun-si-ay-shanand it becomes

  • shan, ay-shan, si-ay-shan, nun-si-ay-shan, uh-nun-si-ay-shan, and finally /pr-uh-nun-si-ay-shan/.

  • This is the end of this lesson I hope you really liked this lesson and if you did please

  • drop in a comment. Thank you very much for watching and have a great day ahead.

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