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recently president trump mispronounced

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yosemite

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when they gaze upon yosemites yosemites

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towering

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sequoias

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now yes probably 99 of americans if not

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more know how to pronounce yosemite it's

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one of america's most famous national

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parks but still

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i would feel very confident saying every

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person who speaks american english has

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mispronounced a word i've done it

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you've done it

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in this video we're going to look at

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tricky words that mess americans up why

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two reasons

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my students are people who are not

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native speakers of american english some

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of them are terrified

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mortified of saying a word incorrectly

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of misusing it so i'm making this video

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so that one they know native speakers do

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this too

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if we read a word or learn it through

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reading we may mispronounce it there's

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not a direct correlation between letters

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and sounds in american english for

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example

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grove

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why are the vowel sounds different

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and the second reason i'm making this is

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so that students can learn some of these

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tricky words that might be intimidating

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now as always if you like this video or

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you learn something new please like and

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subscribe with notifications it really

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helps

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let's start by looking at the word

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yosemite a word that ends in m-i-t-e

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will usually be pronounced might

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termite

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stalagmite but not this word this word

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is yosemite it comes from the language

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of the indigenous people who populated

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the area that is now this national park

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yosemite

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not

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your samonites

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but yosemite

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second syllable stress flap t

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now just to be fair to both sides of the

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political spectrum here i found a word

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that president obama mispronounced i'm

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going to stress again every native

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speaker of american english has

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mispronounced a word if you're a native

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speaker and you're watching this video

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please put in the comments words that

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you have mispronounced why you did it

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how you figured it out who corrected you

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if you can remember all of that

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okay here's obama

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representative of the extraordinary work

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that our men and women in uniform do

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all around the world

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navy corpsman christian bashar

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the word is corman but he pronounced all

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of the letters making it corpsemen

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just as trump was he was reading off a

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teleprompter

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and you know now that i think of it that

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might have been the reason these words

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were mispronounced

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you're in front of a crowd reading

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something you probably didn't write

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it's less organic than saying a word

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that comes to mind it's not corpsemen

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it's corman

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the word core is a word i've definitely

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heard mispronounced by the way i tried

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to see if obama mispronounced the word

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core

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and i couldn't find any examples he

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always said it right

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but if you've only learned the word by

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reading it and you've never heard it

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pronounced

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how would you know the p and the s are

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silent

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this word comes to english from french

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from the latin word corpus meaning body

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and in french they drop a lot of sounds

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so we picked that up when we absorbed

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the word from them

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you might have heard the terms peace

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corps

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marine corps press corps

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a core is a group of people associated

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acting together especially for example

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now to make it more confusing the word

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corporal which also comes from french

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and originally the latin word corpus

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does have a p sound corporal

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but core

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on top of this

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if you pronounced all the letters and

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you did say the word corpse

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that is a word only we spell it with an

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e at the end it's a dead body

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very different meaning

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okay now we're going to go to a news

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correspondent chris jansing

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i asked her if there are any words she

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has a hard time pronouncing

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are there any words in american english

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that you stumble over sometimes that are

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a challenge for you do you know i think

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it's like anybody else sometimes when

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you read something it just doesn't look

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right

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and it might be a simple word

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so usually it's something like that that

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will trip you up she agrees the

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teleprompter might be causing

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some of the mispronunciations because

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some words just don't look at all like

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they're pronounced

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she gives us another word i hear

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mispronounced a lot

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and you all pointed out too in the

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comments of another video on

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mispronunciations i do have some pet

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peeves like nuclear

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which we know is nuclear

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kind of bug me a little bit listening to

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the pronunciation i hope guys yes

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this is a three syllable word with

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sometimes even native speakers will mix

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up the location of the l and say nuke uh

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but we all do the best we can and you

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never get it right 100 of the time

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nuclear

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by the way did you hear chris janssen

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use the term pet peeve

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this is a term we use for something that

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annoys us for example one of my pet

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peeves is when people chew with their

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mouths open while eating

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actually someone else used that phrase

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in the comments my pet peeve is people

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mispronouncing realtor like really

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realtor this is a word that we use for

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people that help us buy and sell houses

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there's no sounds between l and t

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but lots of people put a schwa between l

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and make the t a flap t which sounds

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like real litter

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adding that extra syllable it's like

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when people say triathlon when it's

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no vowel between the constants th and l

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you know english words that come from

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french can be especially tricky to

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one person commented about cash and

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cachet robin says as an avid reader i've

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mispronounced lots of words over the

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years

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and then goes on to talk about cash

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versus cache

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do you know the word avid it's a great

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vocabulary word it means a lot of

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interest in something an eagerness for

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something a desire for something as an

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avid reader robin loves to read more

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sample sentences

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avid fans can meet her after the

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performance or

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he's an avid supporter of the arts

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someone else brought up cash and cachet

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and said one of my co-workers cracks me

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up now that's a phrasal verb that means

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makes me laugh really hard

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one of my co-workers cracks me up

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whenever she says her computer is going

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slowly and she has to clear her cache

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cash cachet we have two different words

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here cash which doesn't have a t and

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cashe which does have a t but we don't

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most americans if they didn't know this

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word when they saw it written would

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probably pronounce it catch it but it's

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from french the ch is an sh sound we

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have stress on the last syllable and we

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don't say the t cache

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actually the stress can be on either

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syllable but second syllable is more

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cachet is being respected admired it's

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prestige if you have social cachet

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you're popular important and well liked

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cash on the other hand is pronounced

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just like this word cash as in money

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it's a place of storage maybe hidden

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you're probably familiar with this when

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it comes to computers it's temporary

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storage for a web browser to make pages

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load faster for you in the future cachet

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cache two totally different words and

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don't say anything for that ending

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letter e but in cliche we do this is

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another word that you might hear

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mispronounced

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no cliche again second syllable stress

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and the ch makes an sh sound cliche

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stereotype unoriginal overused i'll use

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it in a sentence

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the novel is cliche there are no

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interesting characters the plot lines

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are very predictable

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so why in cash is che pronounced sh

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whereas in cliche it's pronounced shea

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i have no idea

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our last two words are also a french

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do you know how to pronounce this word

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are you thinking

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that's probably how an american would

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pronounce it if they'd never seen it

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before or heard it but it's debris

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after the earthquake we went searching

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through the debris of buildings

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that's something owed we have a lot of

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credit card debt for example that means

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we owe a lot of money to the credit card

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we're getting towards the end of this

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