10 English Words You're Probably Mispronouncing!

[@EnglishwithLucy]

Can you pronounce these difficult words? In this pronunciation lesson I will teach you how to pronounce them correctly, and discuss the mistakes that English learners often make! 📝 *GET THE FREE LESSON PDF* _here_ 👉🏼 bit.ly/MispronouncePDF 📊 *FIND OUT YOUR ENGLISH LEVEL!* _Take my level test here_ 👉🏼 bit.ly/EnglishLevelTest12 👩🏼‍🏫 *JOIN MY ONLINE ENGLISH COURSES:* englishwithlucy.teachable.com/courses - _We have launched our B1 and B2 Complete English Programmes!_

[@mohammadjamil8745]

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[@moehtetkyaw3385]

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[@anyelle]

Library was a real surprise for me!😱

[@ghinam2074]

Yes, I was surprised too

[@Sonybacker]

You can say it with the ending BRER-EE. Thay isn't wrong.

[@martinjanda3546]

No need to :) This is a UK pronunciation, Americans say it the - for us - usual way :)

[@vivekkaushik9508]

If only we had an English teacher like Lucy. Beauty with brains.

[@mariannereuter]

Who'd thought I pronounced almond and library wrong all those years? Thank you Lucy for pointing these out! I also struggled with action, sword and sewing (I still tend to forget the last one).

[@allanjoemchanzy]

LIBRARY - in american english its correct how you said . LIBRARY - LIE - BRAIR -EE

[@ross4x666]

I'm wondering how you pronounce CASTLE 🏰🤣🤣🤣

[@sivraastad7248]

I think a lot of us have been taught this the wrong way back in school! I’m norwegian, so I’m excused! Right🤪👍

[@hydrosphagus9672]

A similat pitfall is colonel. I used to pronounce it with three syllables when it turns out it's only two syllables long (something like kuh-nul)

[@stanleymariannefroese6405]

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[@WizageAndStyle]

The only one that rubs me the wrong way is "library". I've been taught the reri sound and even the dictionary says it like that 🤔 I am confused 🤷

[@annau642]

Me too 🤔

[@dominikkowal1087]

Check Oxford Learner's Dictionaries. It's available online and it features the pronunciation that Lucy is talking about in this video.

[@pablomolina497]

@@dominikkowal1087 yes, but Cambridge says the other way

[@ЛюдмилаЧупина-в9я]

I'm also confused with the word "library".

[@rejanexmarya]

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[@loulytanasri8129]

Library was a surprise for me 🤭 all these years I've been pronouncing it wrong 🤦‍♀️🤣 thanks Lucy ❤️

[@emankcin1701]

Loibreary

[@JaimeGonzalez-vh6qt]

Igual yo

[@cbatty80]

Wordreference has the following spelling: UK:/ˈlaɪbrəri/ ....

[@Gmiricius]

@@cbatty80 /ˈlaɪbrəri/ is US pronunciation, /ˈlaɪbri/ is for UK

[@julioplazaasmr175]

When I used to go to ESL classes my teacher told me that lots of Americans don't know how to speak English very well, same thing is in Spanish,

[@davidbroughall3782]

3:15 Native English speaker here from Canada. I pronounce the L in in almond. Everyone I know does as well.

[@Sai_Prasanna]

I was here when Lucy had subscribers less than a million and now she is about to reach 10! Incredible! Love you❤️

[@hi.panorama]

This is by far my favourite series of your lessons. Thank you! 😀

[@mansoorjaved644]

I love your videos Lucy. You're just a great teacher and I'm learning more and more each day. To someone like me who loves English a lot you're like a star in darkness. Keep going

[@oisantos]

I like the number 1 (word, world and work). It's quite difficult to pronounce ha ha... but I always try it. Thanks my teacher 🙏🏻

[@Nihilist_Waleed]

having witnessed this channel was great as the teacher here teaches so elegantly that i was taken aback as the true miracle of God, which Lucy ma'am truly is, can be blessed with the nectar of knowledge!!!

[@proudlyo1125]

My favourite teacher #1 from Ethiopia, in Africa

[@МаксимРябиков-й3ч]

So nice lesson! Really enjoyed it. Thank you Lucy. From Russia with love ❤️

[@hamidulislamraju]

16 বছর যা পড়েছিলাম এখানে এসে বুঝতে পারলাম নতুন করে আবারো ইংলিশ শেখা লাগবো। ব্রিটিশ ভাষার উচ্চারণ এতো কঠিন ।

[@NishiAAAddiction]

Library is the same phenomenon as February :3 I'm always trying to "unpollute" myself from American English (I find British both easier and prettier, but USA culture is so pervasive that this is a difficult thing to accomplish lol) so these videos really help, thanks Lucy :3

[@nataliiasamobrod4480]

It's a big surprise about library. Cambridge dictionary and many Prononciation lessons give 3 syllables

[@nainaramani7383]

Yeah..right! I looked for it, since I've been pronouncing this way too...

[@BoburZafarov.]

I cannot thank you enough, Lucy. I do respect and appreciate you.

[@sebnemhaciyeva5649]

Thanks Lucy,your accent is very clear and I understand you very well. Azerbaijan🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

[@jensandoval1294]

Thanks Lucy from Philippines👋

[@BailandoConChristian]

Hi Lucy! Nice video, as always. However, I don't understand why you say that the pronunciation of library is "laibri" but in the official pronunciation tool of Google it says "laibruhree" for British Engilsh and "laibrehree" for American English. Is this difference with your pronunciation because of the different pronunciations in different regions?

[@pranjalbhojak1470]

I also have the same doubt

[@homejonny9326]

probably. Pronunciation is so multi-thingy

[@armosa]

Don't worry. It's not a pronunciation problem at all... They can't write that's all

[@novalovaaa]

Perhaps it is accent because I agree with Lucy for the pronunciation of 'library' although I pronounce word, world and work differently to her and I'm a native speaker from England.

[@micheledix2616]

Every word Lucy mentioned that is often mispronounced was taught to me in 1950's Queensland Australian english just as Lucy suggested including her pronunciation of library. Not one word was different. Interesting . It depends on where we live and how we were taught I'm thinking 🤔

[@Staywithbooks]

Hi! It was a great and practical lesson. I can not believe that I have been mispronouncing the word ' library' since I started learning English. In my mother tongue most of the people pronounce 'l' in ' salmon', but we don't have the same rule in English.

[@musfiqurrahmansagor1243]

According to me this is the most beautiful pronunciation lesson,,,,love u Lucy,,from Bangladesh ❣️

[@adamgf-86]

What I like prertty much in your teaching videos is that you mind what mistakes foreigner English teachers make and how learners struggle afterwards to understand and communicate native English. As well as before, I enjoyed this video quite much. :-)

[@BuffNettik]

Another valuable lesson that i've learned. Thank you again mrs. teacher

[@jerometsowinghuen]

Excellent word choices. I may have pronounced some words wrong, thank you for the lesson, Miss Lucy.

[@jarekferenc1149]

Years ago, spending my time in England (near London), I visited a big music store and asked for an album of Mark Almond. Regretfully, they could not find any in their database. Thank you Lucy, now I know why they had a problem. I made it difficult by mispronouncing the artist's surname...

[@evaannapakozdi993]

The sound in the would/should/could trio is really similary to the Hunarian sound ü, so I didn't realize others would struggle with that particular sound.

[@farahsleiman2368]

I am happy to watch this video early. Thank you so much Lucy

[@valentinarodoracio8145]

Hi Lucy! Great tutorial.. I’m alway fascinated by the way “at all” is pronounced! Can you provide better understanding on this please .

[@ashrafdarwesh9431]

Due to watching your channel regularly I won English speech competition...so thank you so much,,🥰

[@ezequielniz8041]

I love you Teacher Lucy.

[@farukolcay287]

Thanks

[@lewisbrodnax2682]

I shouldn't have been surprised, people have mentioned my accent before, but I had thought that I was long past it. Regardless I don't think I will ever should so delightful as your self. Thank you.

[@Melody_Treasury]

I'm very happy to share that I also did pronounce the word "Mispronounced" correctly. Thanks to Lucy my English is improving very smoothly. 👌

[@danielpaul84]

You're competent English teacher

[@derrickmccann8489]

Thank you for posting this How to Pronounce your English video Lucy I really appreciate it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@conteudoanimal]

thanks Lucy ... improved my pronunciation a bit

[@deepakmalviya6629]

Very helpful 10 English language and words, Lucy Ma'am, pronunciation i am trying 🙏

[@sunmithaarul7963]

Can you please make a video on literary devices? Not just the usual similes but also the not so common epithet, anaphora, etc..

[@ОльгаФірковська-Метельська]

Thanks Lucy)) Great tutorial! I 've been pronouncing Library wrong all these years)

[@bambamm5302]

No you have not. I believe Lucy is giving the British pronunciation of the word.

[@rodicabrudea923]

Please, how about "direction" and "dimension" and " anti-'something' "? Thanks.

[@michefton9767]

Thanks Lucy!

[@elya31630]

Love this Royal English pronunciation

[@thiagoavila4800]

Top Lucy! Like we say here in Brazil, the class was "top" (really good).

[@fabrice9252]

Fantastic Lucy! Great choice of words ... Bravo! 👍👏 The one that surprised me a lot was 'library' that I pronounced /laibrəri/ instead of /laibri/ I was truly flabbergasted after so many years of wrongly pronouncing it ! Thanks for that. :-)

[@tristaaaaan]

It's not that bad tho, I think a majority of learners say Library instead of libry

[@fabrice9252]

@@tristaaaaan Ok you reassure me! 👌 Thanks so much Tristan! I will try to correct it but as it is one of these fossilised 'mistakes', it might be tricky .... 😂

[@fabrice9252]

@@cindyduong714 Indeed Cindy! ;-) 😊

[@siamakalaei1148]

Thank you so much for this video, which was helpful. Best wishes.

[@illogicmath]

Lucy: "I don't like to show off but, modesty aside, I'm actually really proud of my Received Pronunciation accent" (it's a joke, I love your accent and I'm so envious Grrrrrr)

[@andrewthecreativedesigner]

4:05 Haha that reminds me of my old friend who pronounce that as “vege-table”. Wonder if she needs a vegechair as well.😂😂 And nice video🤩

[@susanzoeckler4926]

I watch because, as an American, I find the differences in pronunciation fascinating.

[@meriemaissat4523]

Till now I'm quite good at pronunciation except parents and library 🤷‍♀️thanks a bunch lovely Lucy

[@lipikapathak1927]

Ma'am, your channel is helping me a lot. Thank you so much. I have a question, if you have some time then please try to clear my doubt. Please tell me how to pronounce the word 'bonafide', it's really being confusing for me as I heard several different ways of pronouncing it. And if the pronunciation changes according to its parts of speech or to the context, then also mention it please. Thanks and lots of Love.

[@davidbroughall3782]

In Canada we pronounce both R's in "library", although my boss who is from Birmingham (UK) does say "libry".

[@vucces184]

Wow! Your daily vlog challenge really made me happy. So I can improve my english easily. I appreciate it 😍

[@uzmakhalid9788]

Thank u so much . i really mispronounced many of these words. Thanku so much for ur help. From Pakistan

[@7MPhonemicEnglish]

What's the difference in pronunciation between 'Century' and 'Sentry'? In both cases, we all incorrectly pronounce the (t) sound as the (ch) sound. The only other difference is the length of the (er) sound, which is actually just one pure vowel sound represented by the letter 'R'. There is some lip pursing and volume modulation that we can do to make it seem as if the 'r' can behave as a consonant but it's still just the (er) sound like in 'dirt'.

[@7MPhonemicEnglish]

7M = 'Sencrrε' & 'Sencrε'

[@lynlee9446]

Hi. I came across your video /channel sometime back and have been benefitting from the free lectures 😊. Thank you. However, I want to know how to pronounce words with 'ING' endings.

[@cleberandrade]

I love british accent, but unfortunately I learned and have an american accent. Even reaching fluency is hard to understand some words you say, but I found your channel these days and decided to challenge myself to understand british accent. It's beatifully strange the way you say the word "WORD"; it's like you don't pronounce the "R", but americans do pronounce it. I see the right depends on the place! I came here from Bob the Canadian, hehe. Thanks for the video!

[@historylover3018]

I was mispronouncing them all. Thanks, Lucy!

[@lysan1445]

I love your channel! Thanks for teaching us for free and in such a fun way! It's amazing. For today, I have another word usually pronounced wrong: "sword". I do martial arts in an international group, and our common language is English. The "w" should not be pronounced, but almost everyone, including our teachers, pronounces it almost like "word" with an "s" in front.

[@hawkeyeyt2198]

Yeah that’s right, and for the comment under here, that seems kinda sketchy to me.

[@ΕιρηνηΤσ-ρ6μ]

Thank you very much 🙏🕊️💓⭐🌟✨🧚🐝❤️♥️♥️🌷🤗

[@mukhtarsheriff]

Pronunciation lesson is just wonderful, to say the least! Thank you.

[@939Aed]

Lucy, would you do a video on British English vs South African English vs. Jamaican English--with guests?

[@amaliwijesooriya8644]

I'm in srilanka .perfect teacher .❤️thank u so much.

[@unhappygilmore7129]

If you were my English teacher, I would have never missed a class.

[@keirlbatoy3625]

What about 'succinct' it has two pronunciation on meriam and I mostly used the 'Suc-sinct' pronunciation which is also on the meriam webster alongside with 'su-sinct' which the first one was said by my co-teacher is an obsolete

[@learnenglishbybangla]

Thank you

[@Voccent]

😊😊😊

[@sangpemimpi7488]

Thanks for your education..

[@najilaazeez7352]

Thank you mam for your wonderful vedio it helped me a lot

[@jakapitaya]

Isn't the vowel sound from wOUld similar to the German letter "ü"?

[@suitejodi]

I’ve been speaking English my entire life ( CT, USA) and some of these pronunciations come as a shock to me.

[@dmzone64]

Hey, misery likes company. Join the Poor Pronouncers Club!

[@suitejodi]

@@dmzone64 And here I thought my enunciation AND pronunciation were spot on! 😬

[@yemaneteame9980]

So nice lesson!really enjoyed it. Thanks you

[@georgiancrossroads]

In America we go full double hard R on library.

[@shalabhpandit8310]

Great but i differ with your pronunciation of library as several British apps pronounce it with the first r also included and not kept silent the way you have suggested...

[@syedhussainaskari5904]

excellent lovely english professor

[@natalissatriajuventus7989]

Thanks for your teaching...you're the best teacher all over the world. Sorry, I am not too good in English Speaking. Say hello from Indonesia.🇮🇩

[@JohnWilliams-nz4pv]

Just opened my Oxford Dictionary app and it says to pronounce ‘library’ as /ˈlʌɪbrəri. Second variant is indeed ˈlʌɪbri/. I always pronounced it ˈlʌɪbrəri, 30 years now, and can’t help it sorry

[@phil1s]

Absolutely, I think teaching RP as the 'correct' way is classist and demeans other perfectly valid UK regional variations.

[@mrDingleberry44]

The primary variant is the norm for American English too.

[@Mikhail_Stasov]

Concerning the word ‘library’ it’s a disputable question. Google translate still pronounces it as ['laibrari].

[@johnb6723]

Google is not a UK company, but is based in the USA's Silicon Valley, hence their weird pronunciation.

[@tetyanas4026]

@@johnb6723 google hired a British person to record the standard British pronunciation. I watched a video about it some time ago.

[@yuurishibuya4797]

I love your short but informative sessions. Thank you. 2M more for 10M subscribers!

[@englishforyou2010]

it helps me to Improve my English.

[@munozinni]

Hola Lucy…Good morning!!!…it’s 6:00 am here in the 🇺🇸 I’m going to have to watch the video later on after a good breakfast 🍳 and cup of joe ☕️ …and more awake lol 😂…sounds like is going to be a good lesson for today’s video… see you soon!!👋😊👋Saludos

[@ahmedhanafi7957]

Thank you Lucyyy

[@sophieirwin3497]

Oooh I do pronounce almond with the l and my accent is RP (usually). Living in Liverpool during my undergrad and PhD my accent has changed a bit

[@afienaqonitahoedan8803]

How about "itinerary", Lucy?

[@francespike9780]

try i-tin-er-ree

[@7MPhonemicEnglish]

7M-English: 'wrd', 'wrk', 'wrld'. One letter per speech sound ALWAYS! Did you know the letter 'L' represents a vowel sound in the word 'world'? Yes, the letter 'L' is sometimes just a vowel 'scold', sometimes just a consonant 'lift' and sometimes both 'sailing' & 'please'. Well, it's just near impossible to get the (ul) sound removed between the 'p' and the consonant 'L'. What's neat is that you only need one letter for these two sounds.

[@allthingsas6467]

I am from Bangladash....This is a very good class..Mam

[@theescofield]

I'm a student still didn't know how to pronounce library 😅 THANK YOU Lucy

[@fanyaschrist]

Thank you, teacher.

[@chamindasampathrathnayake8119]

Your voice is very clear

[@BetterwayofLife]

Nice explanation.

[@midannews6437]

thanks... (shukran) شكرا

[@mademustiasih9626]

Thank You my beautyful teacher.

[@demimiranda]

Great! 🌹

[@karmjulia9604]

You should also mentioned „mirror” ;)

[@nurfikaosman2363]

Library is a real surprise for me! Thanks for sharing this, Lucy.

[@harryfab9659]

It's only armond (almond) if you have a southern softy accent . Or is it just like armost (almost) when something isn't quite right?

[@Binhnguyen-po8dd]

Wonderful, cảm ơn Chị nhiều lắm

[@diperguekendall1463]

Appreciate ❤

[@pikachuabi3436]

One weird law fact in Britain: It is illegal to carry a salmon around suspiciously! You probably wouldn't get arrested for it nowadays but it's still a law

[@sandyhafenbrack141]

Born in the USA. Lived here my whole 58 years and I've been mispronouncing library the whole time. I don't even know what to say.