I remember when i pronounced ''Suite'' as ''Sweet'' after i saw the right pronunciation Online many years ago.......I was Immediately corrected...The well learned Nigerian Lawyer asked me what type of sweet i meant and i explained and she said ''oh you mean ''Suit (Suyuit) where someone lodges in??
I used to pronounce YOT as YATCH..hehehehehehheeh
Make nobody come here pretend oooooo
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ReplyDeleteFunny enough I know all of them.
ReplyDeleteClean your mouth abeg.iro po
DeleteWow!.. I was 'today yrs old' when I learnt how to properly pronounce mortgage and Satchet.. Oluwa o!
DeleteWe learn.. We move. ✌️
anon 13.02. Don't be silly. Some of us were lucky to have parents who taught us, while we learnt some in oral English classes.
Delete@13:02 you obviously didn't do Oral English from JSS1 to SSS3.
DeleteBesides you don't know where @12:33 grew up or educational background.
I used a word in one of our meetings and my supervisor let out an exclamation of wonder. I was initially startled by her reaction until she repeated the word. My team members were quite amused by her reaction.
That said, there is nothing wrong in learning something new everyday.
Nobody is a repository of all knowledge.
Anon 14:02.
DeleteWhat is special about knowing how to properly pronounce all these words? They are English words nau, and not even obscure ones at that.
Some advice for you- even if you were not fortunate enough to have a good foundation at school, you can educate yourself by listening carefully while watching TV- BBC, CNN and even films.
Maybe now in your old age as at that time in a standard JSS school in naija nooo ma or sir. You will have at least mispronounced some of them. So please spare us the nonesense of "funny enough I know all of them" Even Chimaamda will not tell this kind of your lie.
DeleteAnon 15:49,you are suffering from a severe case of inferiority complex.. Some of us knew how to pronounce these words while we were in secondary school..
DeleteDeal with it! By the way, I'm a totally different anon from the ones who spoke earlier..
Anon 15:49, the words listed are very common everyday words. A 10 year should know how to say them correctly. And your Chimamanda comment is silly.
DeleteIf you're semi literate, that's not a crime but it's a problem that should be addressed sooner than later.
I know all of them.
DeleteWhat is silly is that both of you are liars period. I am very well rounded ok. Clean mouth and stop lying.
DeleteSome people with lying and pretending are 5&6 Periodt. I know all of them indeed.
Deletelol @ Stella saying no body should come here and pretend.
ReplyDeleteI dey get some right sha 😆
ReplyDeleteMy own is buffet as in buffet...
ReplyDeleteLol
I use to pronounce Gnash as Gnash thanks for the knowledge
ReplyDeleteyou've been suffering your mouth
DeleteImpressive!!
ReplyDeleteLearned something now..bomb....bom, thumb....thum, plumber....Plummer.
Bomb?
DeletePlumb?
New ke???
How you take reach SS1?..
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DeleteMine was Edinburgh. I remember the day I was corrected by my lecturer when I went to his office to get my reference letter for my masters program. I boldly pronounced it the same way it was written. He looked at me and said not Edinburgh but Edinburra. In my mind I was like really? You learn everyday🚶♂️
ReplyDeleteI and my friend was talking one day and I said to her "did you see that meh meh" and she kept looking at me strangely.
DeleteLater I heard it was "meem" not meh meh I was ashamed but I cannor kill myself mehn
*my friend and I were
Delete@anon12:59 you didn't need to be ashamed 😂 and yes I know who u are 😝
Deletehehehe..one would ask how burra entered that word
Delete13:48 You know me? Does your name start with "I" and ends with "T"?
DeleteSo you dey this blog too😳😳😳😁😂I am so calling you right now. Yeye girl.
Yimu @so I dey this blog. Like say you no knw 🙄
DeleteLet's go on:
ReplyDeleteEscalate - escalay
Imitate -Imitay
Fornicate -fornicay
Terminate -terminay
Evaluate -evaluay
Inject -injectay
intimidate -intimiday
If you pronounce the above for your oral English exams,
you are on your own o. Na only you go chop F9 belleful
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Ah!!! Fear catch me! I was highly ‘kujad’🧐
DeleteANG you dey craze🤣🤣
DeleteI know all but tourniquet, what does it even mean?
ReplyDeleteGoogle it. Don't be lazy.
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DeleteSome of us no need to pretend naa. . I sabi these ones because we did oral English in school where you are mandated to pronounce words following their phonetic symbols.
ReplyDeleteI learnt how to pronounce ‘education’ ( sounds somehow like edju) at a very young age.
Regardless of this, the ‘suite and yot’ get as e still de do me for mouth till date. Consciously I get it right, unconsciously... lol
Oral English was the bomb (bɒm). 👍
DeleteYes, the learning of the phonetic symbols the long and short vowel sounds, e.g. Book (bʊk); Stooge (stuːdʒ). The difference is - short "ʊ" sound and long "u:".
Folks, you could also learn pronunciation of words by clicking the speaker 🔉 on the online dictionary.
Stella, I like this. Some fun.
I didn’t like oral English, our teacher made it a chore! But I loved the Emphatic stress topic.
DeleteI didnt know mortgage and tourniquet
ReplyDelete🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗I really miss commenting oh😓😓😓
ReplyDeleteYep. Know these ones.
ReplyDeleteHow can yatch be yot?? Adonbilivit!!
ReplyDeleteyeah prounounce it as yort 'or' instead of yot 'o'
Deletethis is really educative
ReplyDeleteAs long as u were born and raised in Nigeria,it’s normal for you to not pronounce those words as they are supposed to so no one should come here and lie o.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not necessarily a lie, you know🙂
DeleteI know most of these except yatch and tourniquet. Funny enough some well read person still pronounce suite as suit. We learn everyday, thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteYOT, really? Haaaaa
ReplyDeleteI used to pronounce bouquet exactly as it's spelt. The one word that was confusing was bourgeois, I used to pronounce as bourgeois. Finally, English is a second language
ReplyDeleteWe learn everyday...
ReplyDeletei know most of the pronounciations except bouquet,ballet,yatch and mortgage..good to know
ReplyDeleteWhy not write thumb and thum then.. ndi Oyibo a and confusing someone sef
ReplyDelete*as
ReplyDeleteAnd just of recent, I pronounced Linkedin as Lin-ke-din. My friend's reaction made me know I didn't pronounce it well. I was ashamed and moreso pissed because he should have corrected me. I just knew it the moment he pretended not to hear what I said the first time. I had to ask friends who corrected me immediately
ReplyDeleteWetin concern me? American pronunciation is different. Yacht is not pronunced yot in America. English is one kind. Australian speaks, you scratch head. British speaks, huh?
ReplyDeleteUK groundnut, US peanut. UK lift, US elevator. Go figure! I no go come and kill myself
😂😂😂😂.
DeleteChurch as chursh hahahaha
ReplyDelete*pronunciation* not "pronunciation".
ReplyDeleteA common error too.
I know all but till this minute I'm guilty of DEBT.
ReplyDeleteWelllllll
Awwww. This shows no one is perfect when it comes to this English grammar palace considering that is the easiest one.
Deletehahaha
DeleteYour awwww made me feel like hugging you, thanks a lot.
Spanish is my 1st language.
English is my 2nd
Igbo is 3rd.
Goggle(search engine) gugul🤣🤣🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteMine is Segue..
ReplyDeleteUsed to pronounce it as “Seh-guh” till I learnt twas “Seh-guay”..
I remember the first day I pronounced "awry" the way it is spelt (Awri).My cousin laughed at me ehn! Then she corrected me and told me that it was actually pronounced as (arai).Another tricky word for me was "trough".I pronounced it as (trow) similar to the English word "bough",but ehn, it is actually pronounced as "trof"!English is a wonderful language o! Loool!
ReplyDeleteOne of mine was aisle I pronounced it funny and my sister whom am cat and dog with corrected me I felt like scratching her mouth because she was always winning me in oral English (she was very good at English and even made A1). Nothing to be ashamed of even oyinbo themselves can't even pronounce some words in their own language. So dear friends make una nor kill una sef ooo for SDK blog.
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