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0:00Hello lovely students and welcome back
0:02to English with Lucy. Are you
0:07these common English words? I know
0:11English pronunciation is so confusing.
0:15We have silent letters, a lack of fixed
0:18rules, lots of different accents. I
0:21could go on, but today you will find out
0:24if you're mispronouncing these 10 very
0:27commonly mispronounced words accurately.
0:30Now, an important disclaimer before we
0:33get started. I speak English with an
0:35accent. I speak with modern received
0:38pronunciation. That is what I'll be
0:40focusing on teaching you today. There
0:42are loads of different accents and loads
0:46of different variations in
0:48pronunciation. What is important is that
0:50the listener understands what you're
0:52saying. And if you really want your
0:55British English pronunciation to be
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1:50content. So, don't delay. Let's get
1:53started with number one. How do you
1:56pronounce this word? My
2:00is getting clearer with practice. Now,
2:04if you said pronunciation,
2:08it's incorrect. But I understand your
2:11logic. You'll hear many native speakers
2:14making this mistake. The verb to
2:16pronounce is pronounced with the
2:20defthong. So why not the noun too? The
2:24correct pronunciation is pronunciation.
2:28I often get accused of mispronouncing
2:32pronunciation because sometimes I say
2:35pronunciation so quickly it sounds like
2:38it could be pronunciation. So if you are
2:40ever tempted to correct someone, bear
2:43that in mind. One other thing you might
2:45hear is people adding a soft t sound
2:48before the s pronuniation.
2:52Some people do that. Let's move on to
2:54number two. How would you pronounce this
2:56word here? The scientists began to
3:02what did you say? Data or data?
3:08Either is correct. They are both
3:10perfectly correct. However, one is more
3:14common in British English. Do you know
3:16which data is more common in British
3:19English? Feel free to use the long R
3:22vowel sound data if that works better
3:25for you. Now our friends across the pond
3:27in North America would generally say
3:30dada. Okay. Our next word also causes a
3:33lot of confusion amongst my students.
3:36How would you pronounce this word?
3:42is it schedule or schedule? Now
3:47according to most online dictionaries,
3:50Brits favor schedule with the shh sound.
3:54However, I'm British. I grew up in
3:57Bedfordshire and I heard lots of people
4:00say schedule. It really is a mix. In
4:06schedule with the sound is favored, but
4:09again, you might hear schedule. Number
4:11four is a word that seems to be having
4:14some sort of identity crisis.
4:17How would you pronounce it?
4:20I parked the car in the
4:24So there are at least three common
4:27pronunciations for this word in British
4:29English. I tend to say garage. It's what
4:34I grew up saying. My parents say garage.
4:36This has an sound at the end. Some of my
4:43garage with a long a vowel sound and a
4:48at the end. The sound is in words like
4:52usually and television. A similar
4:55pronunciation replaces the sound with j
5:00as in jeans. Garage. So we have garage,
5:06garage or garage. All three versions are
5:10stressed on the first syllable. G.
5:13However, don't get ahead of yourself. I
5:16haven't finished yet. This word comes
5:18from the French word gare. Sorry, my
5:21French pronunciation needs a lot of
5:23work. Meaning to shelter. And why am I
5:25telling you that? Well, in many North
5:27American accents, there's a tendency to
5:30stress the last syllable and say garage
5:34or garage instead. So, that's five
5:38different possible pronunciations for
5:39this one word. I personally prefer
5:42garage because it's what my dad says.
5:45Let's move on to another controversial
5:47word. How do you pronounce this one
5:50here? I'd like a with jam and cream.
5:55Clotted cream to be precise. Now, if you
5:59said scone rhyming with phone, I'm
6:04afraid you're in the slight minority. If
6:08you said scone as in gone with the O
6:12sound, welcome to my club. This is most
6:15definitely how I prefer to pronounce
6:17this word. Sconone as in gone, not scone
6:21as in phone. Now, not everyone in the UK
6:24agrees with me, and I'm certainly not
6:26saying that scone as in phone is
6:28incorrect. I know lots of people who are
6:31very passionate about the correct
6:34pronunciation of this word. There are
6:36regional differences as well with how we
6:39pronounce scone or scone. Let me know
6:41which one you'll go for in the comments.
6:43I welcome some friendly banter from
6:45Brits that disagree with me. We'll stick
6:47with food for the next word. How do you
6:50pronounce this vegetable here with large
6:53dark green leaves that can be cooked or
6:56eaten raw in salads? In a sentence
6:59is packed full of nutrients. So I
7:02usually say spinach. Spinach with the
7:06short I vowel in the second syllable and
7:10ch at the end. Spinach, not spinach or
7:16spinach. But here's an interesting
7:18thing. Some speakers switch this
7:21unvoiced ch sound for the voiced J in
7:25jeans. Spinach. Can you think of any
7:28other words ending in ch with this
7:31alternative pronunciation? We have this
7:34one. Sandwich or sandwich. Norwich or
7:40Norwich. Greenwich or Greenwich. Okay.
7:45Now for a word I hear mispronounced
7:47quite often. How would you pronounce it?
7:52Aunt Alice has always been a bit what
7:56are we continuing with the food theme?
7:59No, we're not. But I do hear eccentric
8:02quite a lot instead of the voiced G. Use
8:05the unvoiced C. Eccentric.
8:10Eccentric with the e vowel sound works
8:13well too. For number eight, we have a
8:15pair of words. How do you pronounce each
8:23lifestyle. Okay, so the first word is
8:26the noun luxury with the C sound luxury.
8:32But what happens when we switch to the
8:35adjective? It's not luxurious.
8:40The C changes to a G sound. Luxurious. I
8:45think it sounds more luxurious when you
8:47use the G sound as well. Luxury.
8:53Notice how the stress shifts here too.
9:00Now remember, I'm modeling my modern RP
9:03accent, but in North American English,
9:06some speakers use a C- sound followed by
9:12So, in British English, it's luxurious,
9:15and in some North American accents, it's
9:18luxurious. Let's stick with the C- sound
9:21for this next word. What do you call
9:24this small star- shaped symbol that you
9:27can add to a phrase to add more
9:29information at the bottom of a page?
9:31Now, if you said asterisk,
9:34I'm really sorry, but you're wrong.
9:36Instead of thinking Ricks, you need to
9:38think risk. Asterisk. Now, you can
9:42choose to say asterisk or asterisk and
9:46you will be understood. But technically
9:48the correct pronunciation is asterisk.
9:51Okay, it's time for our final word. And
9:54this word is so utterly difficult that
9:57even the British legend that is Benedict
10:00Cumberbatch can't pronounce it
10:02correctly. Can you? How do you pronounce
10:05this super cute black and white animal
10:07that lives in the Antarctic? The waddled
10:12across the ice. Okay, so I'm very sorry.
10:14This is not a penguin.
10:17It's not a penguin either. This very
10:20cute animal is called a penguin.
10:24Penguin. Nice and simple, right? Not for
10:27Benedict. And that brings us to the end
10:30of today's lesson. Let me know which
10:32words you were mispronouncing and let me
10:34know your score out of 10 in the
10:36comments. And don't forget, if you want
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