How Is Your Pronunciation?

[LazyGun]

Independent today running an article on 10 commonly mispronounced words.

How well did you guys do?

Must admit to surprise at finding I was guilty of mispronouncing 2 of the words - apparently my pronunciation of bruschetta and often would be wrong ;)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/threequarters-of-britons-are-saying-it-wrong--the-top-ten-most-common-mispronunciations-9184517.html

[shaneystar2]

Come to Norfolk and be even more confused about your pronunciation :)
http://www.norfolkdialect.com/villages.htm

[Ellipsis]

The findings seem flawed, if bruschetta is this low:

Ely 59%
Keighley 40%
Sherbert 40%
etc 34%
St Pancras 33%
Espresso 26%
Bruschetta 25%
Often 24%
Prescription 21%
Greenwich 16%

Where was the survey carried out - Covent Garden? The article suggests St Pancras - hardly representative of "Britons".

By the way, I spell "sherbert" "sherbet" - easier to pronounce that way, too. 40% can't pronounce "sherbet"? Unbelievable.

[The Font]

What about ‘dissect’? 90 % of people get that one wrong.

[jasah]

I'm sure that the most mispronounced word has not been listed as in my view the number of people (including TV newsreaders and reporters) who cannot pronounce "drawing" and insist on adding an R in the middle is unbelievable, and how many people talk about prostRate problems?

[mrs_overall]

Me & my beloved have just been having a discussion on how to pronounce the word atrophy.
I say it is ah-trophy
He says it is ay-trophy
Who is right?

[Blairphil]

So, how do you pronounce HOMAGE? There seems to be a creeping trend in the media to use the French pronunciation - Ho-marge, rather than the proper English - Homij. Can we get back to English, and leave the frogs to their side of the English Channel, please! ;-)

[jno]

he is probably saying ah, trophy wife.

It's AT tro fee if a noun, AT tro fy if a verb

[mulberryrd]

In the U.S. it's sherbet not sherbert.

[Cloverjo]

In my dictionary (Chambers), it's sherbet. No mention of sherbert, at all.

[Daisy34]

Thank you for your message today. I am very new to all this and could not originally find the words I was mispronouncing, have now and admit to getting often wrong but the others I was okay on. Thanks and hope you get this.

[sandyRoe]

And does a poetaster sip from gazunders or should the word be pronounced poet + aster?

[trapcistcarth]

Got two wrong :(

[askyourgran]

Eight correct. I do say ofTen, being a northerner I can only think it is a colloquial thing, offen sounds sloppy to me. I got Bruchetta wrong and Ely. Now Keighley in West Yorkshire (Keith-ly) was OK, but my Aunties were called M** Keighley and it is pronounced Keeley.