{"id":1832,"date":"2009-09-20T17:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T22:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2010-08-10T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T05:24:15","slug":"10-commonly-mispronounced-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"10 Commonly Mispronounced Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it&#8217;s the complexity of the English language, regional differences, laziness, or other factors, we mispronounce many of our words, often without even realizing it. Here are ten that I&#8217;ve noticed in other people. You&#8217;ve probably heard some from me, as well.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=5 align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><strong>CORRECT<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>INCORRECT<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>What-a-Burger<\/td>\n<td>Water-Burger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Realtor<\/td>\n<td>Real-a-tor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Height<\/td>\n<td>Heighth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nuclear<\/td>\n<td>Nucular<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ask<\/td>\n<td>Aks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Idea<\/td>\n<td>Ideal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wash<\/td>\n<td>Warsh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chipotle<\/td>\n<td>Chi-pol-tee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Louisiana<\/td>\n<td>Loo-zee-ann-a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vanilla<\/td>\n<td>Va-nell-a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In doubt about the correct pronunciation of a word? Check <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What have you heard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it&#8217;s the complexity of the English language, regional differences, laziness, or other factors, we mispronounce many of our words, often without even realizing it. Here are ten that I&#8217;ve noticed in other people. You&#8217;ve probably heard some from me, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=1832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}