Jojoba pronounced as hohoba
I was on a stream of thoughts too what to write ,knowing I don't have so much going on in my life so I went to instagram, sometimes I visit Instagram to get an idea of what to write on readcash,while on Instagram I was watching a hair video on Instagram when I heard someone pronounce jojoba and what I heard was hohoba,I was like damn what,so I decided to write about it,what I realized was I thought I knew how to speak English fluently but I realized that I don't even know how to pronounce half of the words in English if I was examined.
Buffet this is pronounced as boof-a-y
Niche is pronounced as neesh
Often this is pronounced as offen
Almond is pronounced as almund
Meme is pronounced as meem
Marijuana is pronounced as mar-uh-wah-nuh
Vegetable is pronounced as veg-table
Tortillas is pronounced as tohr -tee-yahs
Agape pronounced without pronouncing the e,like agap
Athlete is pronounced as ath-leet
Cache is pronounced as cash
Entrepreneur is pronounced as ahn-truh-pruh- nur
Pizza is pronounced as peet-zuh
Debris is pronounced as de-bree
Epitome is pronounced as
Flour is pronounced as flower
Genre is pronounced as Zhahn -ruh
Hyperbole is pronounced as hy-per-ba-lee
Lingerie is pronounced as lawn-geh-rei
rendezvous is pronounced as rahn-duh-vooa
Subtle is pronounced as suth-l
Suite is pronounced as sweet
Tuition is pronounced as too- ish-uhn
Vineyard is pronounced as vin-yard
Its said that more than 60 percent of words have silent letters meaning,that there is a big difference between pronouncing and spelling of a word.
The idiocencrasy of English can live you in disbelief and also surprise and delight sometimes.
It will be great to download a dictionary with pronunciation so you could check words on how to pronounce them.
There so many words like this that I didn't mention here probably more then 60 percent of the English language,like I'm not going to ever say I speak English fluently when I'm feeling application forms,I'm really surprised.