Avoid Mispronunciations

Avoid Mispronunciations

Be aware of how you are pronouncing words. Sometimes regional accents cause mispronunciations. There is nothing wrong with accents, except when they cause misspelling. I had to drop my southern accent many times during spelling and phonics classes in order to teach sounds and words accurately. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the simple little word "on" is not supposed to be pronounced with a long "o" sound.

Mispronunciation often causes the misspelling of words. Below are some common examples:

accidentally [al is often omitted] athletic [e is often wrongly added- atheletic] arctic [c is often omitted] boundary [ a is often omitted] candidate [d is often omitted] children [ re is often reversed- childern] disastrous [e is often wrongly added- disasterous] everybody [ y is often omitted] generally [ e is often omitted] government [ n is often omitted] hundred [re is often reversed- hunderd] words ending in ing such as working [g is often omitted] history [ o is often omitted]

laboratory [ o is often omitted] liable [ a is often omitted] library [ r is often omitted] literature [ a is often omitted] mischievous [ long-e is often wrongly added- mischEEvEEous ] occasionally [ al is often omitted] prefer [re is often reversed- perfer] preserve [re is often reversed- perserve] probably [ ba is often omitted] strictly [ t is often omitted] surprise [ r is often omitted] temperature [a is often omitted] usually [ u is often omitted

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When You Say and can catch far for get just many old told went when

Do Not Say an kin, ken ketch fur fur git jist, or jest minny ole tole wint win

When You Say engine find follow last pillow running slept throw throwing threw what while

Do Not Say ingine fine folla or foller las piller or pilla runnin slep trow throwin thew wat wile

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