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A new Google Search feature shows you how to pronounce difficult or unusual words. It’ll even offer feedback if you practice the pronunciation by speaking it into the microphone. It also offers ...
In an effort to help the average English speaker use these words more confidently in everyday life, here are the proper pronunciations and some sample sentences to try the words out.
Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.
How do you say paczki? Just in time for Fat Tuesday, learn how to pronounce the Polish treat. (Hint: It's not PATZ-key or PATCH-key.) ...
Our world has gone global, but some words continue to have regional pronunciations. Say these words, and we'll tell you where you're from.
Then we recklessly go ahead and pronounce them as they're spelled...until someone starts to laugh. Here are 10 words from the cupboard that will have you waving a white handkerchief.
NYAWK-kee Italian thick, soft dough dumplings, first course alternative to soup Eat24, an online food delivery service, puts gnocchi in their top ten list of mispronounced food words. The problem ...
A list of names and words most frequently pronounced incorrectly was compiled by the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters (BIVR) and the language-learning app Babbel.
From tomato to aluminium, Brits and Americans have some very different opinions on how to pronounce certain words in the English language. This week a fierce debate has erupted on social media ...
Words that don't originate in the English language can become a challenge, like Qatar or Gaddafi , Kadafi, Qaddafi? But native American speakers also find some words within our own language to be ...
Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.