10 Words Even Natives Are Saying Wrong! Learn English Like A Native

the first of ten words that even natives

regularly mispronounce is the word cache

cache not cache, which even I am guilty

of sometimes saying. But cash like cold

hard cash. now this word refers to a type

of storage I often hear it when talking

about the computer and Internet files. I

often have to empty my cache folder to

make sure my computer is running

smoothly.

the second word is the word espresso

espresso I for a long time we're saying

eXpresso which lots of natives do, we

were adding this X sound: expresso. But

that's not correct it's espresso,

espresso. do you like to drink a nice

espresso in the morning? I certainly do.

I've really missed my coffee during my

time of pregnancy, cannot wait to have an

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let's carry on with those words. number 3

etc rather than the mispronunciation etc

etc which is what I've been saying for a

long time. etc is something you would use

at the end of a list to mean 'and other

things' there's more for the list. so I

might say "I went grocery shopping I

bought apples oranges milk bread etc"

number 4, it's quite a difficult word to

get your mouth around and it's the word

February you have to really

make sure you're pronouncing that r

after the b. February. many

of us naturally say FebUary and we put

our liquid Y sound in there FebUary

but that's not correct. February. the next

word is difficult because the dexterity

that's needed to move your tongue fast

enough it's the word sixth, sixth. so your

tongue has to be up at the back to make

the K it comes forward for the s and

then through the teeth quickly to make

the th. sixth sixth

so if you practice those three

points: back of the tongue high, tip of

the tongue to the roof of the mouth, and

then the th = K, S , TH, then you will

have the perfect pronunciation of sixth.

luckily most of us don't come

sixth in a race so we don't have to say it

very often. the next word is a word I've

struggled with most of my life and it's

due to a mishearing when I was a child.

words that start with PER or PRE can

often be confused and it's the word

perhaps perhaps. Now as a child I only

ever heard Pre PREhaps PREhaps so I was

saying p r e it was only through really

learning to spell this word that I

realsed I was mispronouncing it. it

should be perhaps not

PREhaps. sticking with that theme another

commonly confused P word is prescription

prescription

we often say PERscription as if it was

spelt PER but that's not the case it's

PRE so it should be prescription. your

doctor will give you a prescription

which you must take to the chemist. the

next word is a fun word and it's the

word tenterhooks, tenterhooks. if you are

on tenterhooks it means that you are

concerned anxious worried about

something. if I'm waiting for some news

about some loved ones perhaps they are

very ill or they've been in an accident

you could say Anna was waiting on

tenterhooks. she was nervous anxious

worried. but many people mispronounce

this word as tenderhooks tenderhooks

instead of tenterhooks. next we have a

commonly confused pair of words utmost

and upmost, utmost

and upmost. they are two existing words

and often utmost is replaced by upmost

which is incorrect.

utmost means of great importance it's

serious. so you often hear this when

talking about how important something is

so you might say "it's of the utmost

concern" or "it's of the utmost importance"

so you're saying it's severe. it's

very important. it's to be taken

seriously.

however upmost just means of the highest

point. so you might say the upmost shelf

or the upmost branch. I don't hear that

word as often but utmost I hear

regularly so make sure you're saying up

with a T not up with a P. now the

next word is one of my favorite word's

whether it's pronounced correctly or

mispronounced it's a wonderful word but

before I jump onto that word I just want

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final word, the one that I love is the

voluptuous it means curvy

round ripe a little bit chubby perhaps

normally you can call a person

voluptuous if they're curvy and

attractive with their curves they're

very voluptuous. the mispronunciation is

voLUMPtuous like they're all lumpy

voLUMPtuous which is what I always said

up until recently. it's for volumptuous

no it's voluptuous to us not volumptuous

so there we go what words

do we have? cache, espresso, etc, February February

February, sixth,

perhaps, prescription, tenterhooks, utmost,

very important and voluptuous.

I have to

repeat that to myself a thousand times

so I don't mispronounce it ever again. do

you have any words that you regularly

mispronounce? let me know and let me know

if you are in native and you

mispronounce any of these words and any

additional words that you mispronounce

it's always incredibly interesting to

hear from you if you have enjoyed this

video about mispronunciations then you

may enjoy this video just down here and

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bit fruity, a bit of a laugh then take a

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