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Word Pronunciations

SUMMARY: Just how does one pronounce various words?


 

Dining at a French restaurant and not sure how to pronounce the word paillard? When discussing buying or selling a home, do you accidentally add an extra vowel when saying the name "realtor"?

The following online dictionaries let you click on speaker icons to hear how words should be pronounced (according to the site's sources):

Answers.com

yourDictionary.com

Curious which words are most often bungled in the English language? Read "100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English" - http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html.



 

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