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You say poe-TAY-toe.

not_on_display — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:03:53 -0800

Forvo: All the words in the world, pronounced by native speakers. At the time of this post, the tally stands at: 327,492 words; 239,165 pronunciations; in 220 languages; with 25,040 users submitting.

Well Said, English.

Effigy2000 — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:07:23 -0800

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That hokum recording of Bruckner's

Gyan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:34:39 -0800

pronunciationguide - for aspiring classical radio announcers

100 Most Mispronounced Words

hama7 — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:18:43 -0800

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English.

Anguish Languish

lobakgo — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:19:13 -0800

It’s not what you say, it's the way you say it--Part 2. This observation was cleverly illustrated by Prof. Howard L. Chace in Anguish Languish, an exercise to demonstrate to his French Language students that intonation is key to understanding spoken language. Here is the complete text. You can read his best known Furry Tell about a Wicket Woof and a Ladle Gull or hear it read.(Warning-has sound.) I first found out about Howard Chace from an article in The Whole Earth Catalog and certain phrases have rattled around my head ever since. Here is a discussion of Anguish Languish if you want to write your own. Like this version of Gender Cyst from the Homely Babble.

Foreigners' common pronunciation mistakes in Eenglish

Carlos Quevedo — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:23:24 -0800

Ough!* I pronounce the English language unpronounceable: Arriba! Arriba! Arriba! Speedy Gonzales here. When will you make up your minds and stop ~~making fun of~~ pestering us poor foreigners? I mean, it's not as if you yourselves can agree on how to pronounce almost anything... [*As in "plough". Not as in through, , thought, thorough, thought, hiccough, lough or enough already!]

Pronouncing words

Mack Twain — Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:01:39 -0800

Qatar Home of Central Command and Al Jazzera television, it's a small oil-rich country we've all heard of, and that's the problem: I hear Qatar called Cutter, Gutter, Katar, and Kwatar. How do the Qataris' pronounce it; is it possible to accurately pronounce foreign words in English? Who decides? More inside...