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the reason why many words in american

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english end up being mispronounced even

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by highly educated native speakers is

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because english isn't phonetic

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letters don't have a one-to-one

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relationship with sounds this word

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is love a vowel this word is move

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ooh vowel this word is stove

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o diphthong y

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they're all part of the sequence o v e

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this is how people get mixed up or look

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at this ch can be sh like in chef or

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like in choir or

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ch

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like in choice

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no wonder i found examples of people

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taking this word

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where it's an sh echelon

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and pronouncing it like a ch

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echelon

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who xi jinping brings into the higher

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echelon of party leadership or k

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echelon i don't know if putting it into

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the echelon of high dining necessarily

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does anything to the cuisine lots of us

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learn words by reading so if we're not

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hearing the pronunciation we may guess

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wrong today i'm gonna go over five words

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that people mispronounce or get mixed up

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in english if you've mispronounced one

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of these words or a different word

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please put it in the comments below

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this is not meant to insult people but

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more to say look at this wacky language

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it's no wonder it's so hard for people

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to learn english as a second language

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not to mention the difficulties we

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native speakers can face when it comes

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to spelling

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first this one i was definitely

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mispronouncing it before researching

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this video it's pronounced

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pathos

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pathos

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pathos

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pathos pathos

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i was pronouncing it pathos

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why look at this word it's common path i

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know it and i know the pronunciation

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it's a

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not a

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this is not

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path

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so i saw this and i thought path pathos

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but this word is pathos or less commonly

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pathos

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i went to uglish to see am i the only

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one mispronouncing this

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no i was in good company lots of native

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speakers were mispronouncing this

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by the way the phrase in good company

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means to be in the same situation as

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others you respect in this case i found

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other people mispronouncing this word

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just like me

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story is an influential tool which can

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mold the most obstinate of minds by

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means of appealing to an individual's

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pathos

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so acting as if you're forever young

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means you get this set of pathos

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and this fear isn't that crazy i mean

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these are people giving talks planned

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speeches and still

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mispronunciations now if so many people

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mispronounce a word does it start to

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become an acceptable pronunciation

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maybe we're going to cover that later

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with another word in this video

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pathos means a quality that makes

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someone feel pity or sadness for example

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the death scene in the play was full of

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pathos

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the scene had the power to make me feel

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really sad

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pathos

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so sad

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our next one also has a th it's this

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what how do you say it it looks sort of

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like a tongue twister

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miss

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but the th is actually silent it's just

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isthmus very simple actually it's like

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christmas without the beginning kerr

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isthmus

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well okay i did check five dictionaries

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and one of them did list th as an

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additional acceptable pronunciation but

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the other four didn't list it at all

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so you could say

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in the narrow isthmus of land at the

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heart of the refuge

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this person did such a nice job

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pronouncing all those sounds but for my

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english language learning students out

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there i know the s t h combination is

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tricky so just drop the th simplify

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what is an is miss anyway it's a narrow

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strip of land with c on both sides

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connecting to larger pieces of land like

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this the isthmus of panama

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one pronunciation of this word that i

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noticed but you won't see in any

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dictionary is to put the th at the end

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take it south of um panama the isthmus

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of panama

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isthmus i could not find any dictionary

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where that was listed as a pronunciation

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stick with a silent th

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bonus word okay th not very common to

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have that be silent at all but there is

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another word with a silent th that you

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may come across and it's

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this is a condition where your airways

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become inflamed and narrow making it

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difficult to breathe and it's somewhat

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asthma asthmatic both of these have that

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the most common pronunciation for this s

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in american english is a z as

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now this next word it's really a

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grievous mistake to mispronounce it the

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word means to cause grief or sadness to

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be outrageous or oppressive

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it's grievous to mispronounce this word

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i'm just kidding it's not grievous it's

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okay everyone mispronounces words

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sometimes the word i'm talking about in

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case you hadn't guessed yet is grievous

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several times i've heard this pronounced

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grievous grievous instead of grievous

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if you've been mispronouncing it you're

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not the only one i've been reading a

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number of studies lately that suggest

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that despite our grievous

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unemployment figures as he continued to

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direct fire he was struck again this

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time suffering grievous damage to his

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abdomen he had engaged in grievous

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immoral conduct and was being counseled

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by emma color scheme to describe the

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electoral landscape of the u.s it's

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generally considered a grievous error

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not grievous three syllables but

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grievous two syllables if you're one of

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my students out there learning english

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as a second language i hope you're

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starting to see that it's okay to

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mispronounce or misspell a word it

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doesn't mean you aren't bright or that

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you're failing at learning english we

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all mispronounce things sometimes

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and sometimes we start to mispronounce

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things so much

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that we start to misspell them too

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that's what happens with this next word

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the word is sherbet

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no silent letters no letters doing weird

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things but somehow many people's minds

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have added an r

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and so a lot of people pronounce this

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bert instead of but sherbert but there's

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no r there in that second syllable in

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fact if you type it into google it's

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going to let you know that what you're

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asking about isn't an actual word

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what is sherbet

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it's a frozen dessert made with fruit

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white or gelatin personally

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so many people are saying sherbet with

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that extra r red roof orange sherbet

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popularized mad men i didn't mind using

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that and a little sherbet cup too that i

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had but it's just sherbet sherbet

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sherbet when you hear so many people

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mispronounce a word for so long it can

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be very hard to believe that that's not

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the pronunciation i mean here's an

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on his channel crash course teaching a

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lesson on sensation and perception we

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contrast between the orange of a

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sherbert and the orange of a

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construction cone someone just told me

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doesn't isn't a word that exists his

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name is michael aranda and he's a dumb

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head did you type it into the dictionary

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type it into google

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a thing poor hank it is hard to learn

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that you've been pronouncing something

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wrong the whole time but wait

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i did actually find one dictionary

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that's taken this common

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mispronunciation and its subsequent

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misspelling and actually put it as an

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entry in the dictionary sherbert

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merriam-webster put it in as a variant

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and it doesn't say that it's a

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misspelling but from the research i've

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done it does seem clear that the word

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sherbert

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misspelling of the word sherbet

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this dictionary.com article says

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sherbert pronounced sure burt

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is a common misspelling of sherbet that

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resulted from a common mispronunciation

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its prevalence has resulted in its

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inclusion in some dictionaries as an

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alternative spelling so there you have

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if you're interested in hank's actual

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lesson on sensation and perception i'll

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put a link to that video in the

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description

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so there are some words that americans

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mispronounce etcetera etcetera

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wait etc that's another word

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or phrase that gets mispronounced you

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can spell it with a space or without

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personally i prefer with a space what

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does it mean it means other things

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related that you don't name for example

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you can choose any color you want purple

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in other words all the other colors too

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so how does it get mispronounced

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if we look at the word in ipa we see a

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couple different pronunciations

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some dictionaries say e

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but it can also be three syllables then

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we have a tr cluster and americans

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the mispronunciation happening in the

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first syllable i think because of the

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letter c which can be

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a k sound or s an s sound like it is

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here

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people want to put in a k sound in that

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first syllable they say ich cetera et

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cetera instead of et cetera et cetera

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but the first consonant is definitely a

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t not a k in all listed pronunciations

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now the difference is subtle because t

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and k are both stop consonants we don't

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usually say the whole sound when the

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next sound is a consonant like here so

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the pronunciation i want you to use if

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you're my student learning english is

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etcetera et

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et cetera this is most common and that

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first tea is a stop t at

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that little quick stop of air that's

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what we hear as a t e

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etc the rest of the word is smooth with

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that flat t etc second syllable stress

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etc so the next time you're listing

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things you can name a few and say

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etc

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if you've ever mispronounced a word

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please share the word and the story in

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the comments below or tell the story in

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a video post it to instagram and tag me

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rachel's english so i can share it it

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just normalizes it you know english

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spelling and pronunciation is incredibly

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challenging if you've mispronounced a

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lot of words in your life

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it probably means you've learned a lot

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of vocabulary from reading and that's

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something that i think is pretty cool so

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kudos to you

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if you love looking at the quirks of the

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english language please keep it going

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now with this video and be sure to

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subscribe to my channel with

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notifications on so you never miss a

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that's it and thanks so much for using

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rachel's english