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79 Common Mispronunciations - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep. 21) Danteworlds. 21 Accents. Sounds Familiar? What you can hear You can listen to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank.

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You’ll hear Londoners discussing marriage and working life, Welsh teenagers talking with pride about being bilingual and the Aristocracy chatting about country houses. You can explore the links between present-day Geordie and our Anglo-Saxon and Viking past or discover why Northern Irish accents are a rich blend of seventeenth century English and Scots. You can study changes in pronunciation among the middle classes or find out how British Asians express their linguistic identity. What you can do In addition there are interpretation and learning packages relating to the dual themes of language variation and language change within spoken English. Speech Accent Archive. Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices. WordReference Games. Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Games, and Flashcards.

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Expand your vocabulary! 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English. There are spelling rules in English, even if they are difficult to understand, so pronouncing a word correctly usually does help you spell it correctly.

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English

Here are the 100 most often mispronounced English words ("mispronunciation" among them). Several common errors are the result of rapid speech, so take your time speaking, correctly enunciating each word. Careful speech and avid reading are the best guides to correct spelling. Need more help with these common errors? Check out the YourDictionary Battle of the Commonly Misspelled or Misused Words infographic for an easy-to-understand visual explanation of the most commonly confused words. Don't say: acrossed | Do say: across Comment: It is easy to confuse "across" with "crossed" but better to keep them separate.

Don't say: affidavid | Do say: affidavit Comment: Even if your lawyer's name is ''David,'' he issues affidavits. Don't say: Old-timer's disease | Do say: Alzheimer's disease Don't say: Antartic | Do say: Antarctic. Section I - Useful Phrases.