Hey guys, Here's a list of commonly mispronounced words in English. Very interesting and useful, in my opinion. Enjoy! Feel free to post any other ones that you've come across. A No: acrossed | Yes: across It is easy to confuse "across" with

Actually, there have been many, many times in my life when I (a native speaker) have had to ask the person speaking (also a native speaker) to clarify whether he or she just said "can" or "can't." I think in most American

Hi alc24, The first version of your first sentence is the one I would choose because it is flows nicely and says clearly what you mean. The second version is grammatical and understandable; but, It took me the time it takes... has a very awkward

I've got a lot of stuff to do. In informal speech, the contracted form can be left out: I got a lot of stuff to do. ...but it's never left out in the third person singular: He's got a lot of stuff to do. That happens in American

Kooyeen, I'm African American and being black has NOTHING to do with pronouncing the word "sword" nor does it have anything to do with Ebonics. That is an ignorant, stereotypical statement... It was just a guess, since CB said he

I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

I haven't the patience to read through all of that thread, but there is no single American pronunciation. We have several regional dialects, all of which are acceptable. The Webster's pronunciations that I have already given you are fine– what

According to both the Cambridge Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary, "bag'gel" is not the British pronunciation of the word "bagel". If those two dictionaries are any indication, the British pronunciation is basically