25 Words That Make You Look Like an Idiot When Pronounced Wrong


	25 Words That Make You Look Like an Idiot When Pronounced Wrong
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">While it is a disease of old-timers, it is named for the German neurologist, Dr. Alois Alzheimer. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Antartic</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><B>Antarctic </B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Just think of an arc of ants (an ant arc) and that should help you keep the [c] in the pronunciation of this word.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">aks</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><B>ask </B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">This mispronunciation has been around for so long (over 1,000 years) that linguist <A href="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/../about/experts.html%23aronoff">Mark Aronoff</A> thinks we should cherish it as a part of our linguistic heritage. Most of us would give the axe to "aks."</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><A name="business"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">bidness</FONT></A></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><B>business</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">The change of [s] to [d] before [n] is spreading throughout the US and when the unaccented [I] drops from this word the [s] finds itself in the same environment as in "<A href="%23isnt">isn't</A>" and "<A href="%23wasnt">wasn't</A>." </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">a blessing in the skies</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><B>a blessing in disguise</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">This phrase is no blessing if it comes from the skies. (Pronounce it correctly and help maintain the disguise.)</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">card shark</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" bgcolor="%23e6e6e6"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><B>cardsharp</B></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/02/top-25-words-that-make-you-look-like_15.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Cardsharps probably won't eat you alive, though they are adept at cutting your purse strings.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79A8EF16-DE68-40EB-BC7F-67816E254D36/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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