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ifejobi84754:
Which of these is correct, accessories or assessories?

accessories ni

Dilemna but they say it's DILEMMA.

Newman20:
None. I'm quite proficient in English language.

Alaye, shut the Bleep up, you be dictionary?

Easyincome24:
I keep asking why some words are not written the way they are pronounced and also some words ain't pronounced the way they are written.

How can I explain that SOLILOQUY is pronounced[b] /so-li-lo-kwi/[/b] transcribed as /səˈlɪləkwi/?

How would I have known that GNARL is pronounced as /narl/ while one swallows the G but transcribed as[i] /nɑːl/[/i]

So guys, what are those English words you find difficult to spell or pronounce?

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My only difficulty is to pronounce the western way

Like the stressing of letter 'r' in every word for a start

Newman20:
None. I'm quite proficient in English language.

if I ask you pronounce epitome now, you'd go to Google first

Some people still find these confusing

Separate seperate
February Febuary
Duely Duly
Necessary Neccessary
Arguement Argument
Supercede Supersede
Calendar Calender
Dilemma Dilema
Judgement judgment

higgledy-piggledy

How i wan take spell am now?

Exactly, I just cant pronounce it���� and it really painful,

A list of words that do not sound the way they are spelt

Quay. > Key
Yacht pronounced yot
Chalet shalay
Chauffeur. Shafur
Champaign. Shampain
Chef. Shef

Police p'lis

Towel. Tawul

And so many more.

Pneomonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcaneosis

My only difficulty is to pronounce the western way

Like the stressing of letter 'r' in every word for a start

I still have issues with "I'm" and "Am".. pls help me out

Hambivert:
Hormonal or Cultural inflections?
I don't know, even if I know I can't totally rule it out.
...but sparogatively, I've come across alot of very educated people who find it hard to pronounce some English words correctly.

From the ones who don't know the difference between I'm and Am but still think they are right in all ramification using Am in place of I'm
...to the ones who pronounce CerTiFicate as CerFiTicate. The list is endless.

There are also those who have the H-Factor ingrained in their tongues...these ones make the word everybody sound like Hair-vri-body and still put you into confusion when they are saying words like hair or air ... there's actually no difference with them. Everything is HAIR!
..."The Hair is blowing from the Heast today!"

The ones that I still cannot find a way to correct, are the ones that pronounce words like Treasure, Pressure and Measure as...
Treh-Yor
Preh-Yor and
Meh-Yor.

Anyways, I am in no way mocking any of them here. I'm just a good citizen stating his observation.

People. It's people in my mind but others hear FIFU.



Speaking for Buhari

Genre

Apreecauts:
I don't know why, but I find it hard to pronounce the word tasks

Try Illegal

ifejobi84754:
Which of these is correct, accessories or assessories?

ACCESS BANK is correct

Mine is ...soliloquizes.... Do you need banner, logo or flyer design for you business....get my contact from my signature and message me now...thanks

Easyincome24:
That's interesting to know.

That means you are a dictionary, Lolz.

Joke apart, hope you are utilizing that skill to make money as a translator, proof reader, writer?

Please any help or guidance on how I can make money from my proficiency in the language? Thanks in anticipation.

Knife�

erico2k2:
Try Illegal

Lol, that is actually easy for me to pronounce

I find it very difficult to spell sanwo olu

PAWG:
Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

I find it difficult pronouncing it at a go

wahala be like signature every body get him own

Some of these words like Knight or knife, used to be pronounced how they are spelled. In old English.

But over generations, languages gradually change and shift.

A lot of English words with weird spellings are a result of this. The old spellings haven't been updated to fit modern pronunciations.

The American spelling of words tried to fix this, but it still didn't go that far

⏩Serendipity

⏩Serendipitous

⏩Serendipitously

kingemaker:
Genre

Zhonri. With the initial consonant (zh) sounding like "zure" in seizure.

Leave all those nonsense and join Yahoo.

You go hammer taya.

Newman20:
Thank you. I think I'll follow this path for now at least.

For me

Colonised and conolised.

I have nothing to say. Only God will forgive Kopa Kunle for flogging me back then. How on earth would I have known he meant ICE CREAM when he was actually pronouncing HIGH SCREEN?

In a seminar I attended in 2018,we were given dictation and the first word was pronounced "you". All the students wrote down 'YOU'. In the end,the answer was 'ewe'.so,ewe is pronounced the same way as you.

colonel (konEl)

Zetty177x:
Some people still find these confusing

Separate seperate
February Febuary
Duely Duly
Necessary Necessary
Arguement Argument
Supercede Supersede
Calendar Calender
Dilemma Dilema
Judgement judgment

A lady spelt Octomber instead of October (she said it is mber, so the letter 'm' must be in it.). Lol!