pronunciation mistakes
If you are an English language learner, there are different pronunciation mistakes that you will make to those made by a native speaker. The reason for pronunciation mistakes that are made by non-native English speakers is two-fold:
1. There are sounds in English that may be entirely missing in your native language
2. We tend to mimic the pronunciation of those around us, and even native English speakers are guilty of mispronunciations, which then become the accepted way of sounding out the
common pronunciation mistakes
wrong correct
assessory accessory
affadavid affidavit
Artic Arctic
aks ask
asterik asterisk
bob wire barbed wire
bidness business
cannidate candidate
Calvary cavalry
close clothes
dialate dilate
decrepid decrepit
diptheria diphtheria
drownd(ed) drown
excape escape
expresso espresso
excetera et cetera
expecially especially
Febyuary February
fedral federal
fillum film
hi-archy hierarchy
interpretate interpret
irregardless regardless
jewlery jewelry
leash lease
libel liable
liberry library
mannaise mayonnaise
metorology meteorology
miniture miniature
mischevious mischievous
nucular nuclear
often ofen
orientate orient
ostensively ostensibly
parlament parliament
perculate percolate
perogative prerogative
perscription prescription
prespire perspire
probly, prolly probably
pronounciation pronunciation
prostrate prostate
realator realtor
revelant relevant
reoccur recur
sherbert sherbet
silicone silicon
snuck sneaked
sose so
spade spay
supposably supposedly
ways way
If you are an English language learner, there are different pronunciation mistakes that you will make to those made by a native speaker and the reason for these pronunciation mistakes are varied.