100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
The list includes some of my pet peeves: "snuck" (should be "sneaked"), forte (two syllables if you're talking about music - "for-tay", one syllable if you are talking about someone's strong point - "fort"), "often" (the "t" is silent) and "respite" ("re-spit").
The note it has for "whet" is, "In the Northeastern US the sound [hw], spelled "wh," is vanishing and these two words are pronounced the same. Elsewhere they should be distinguished." while other entries that it labels as mispronunciations could be considered Southern U.S. dialect (bob wire should be pronounced barbed wire, for example...although in the south, we know it should be bob wahr.)
Posted by marybeth at March 28, 2004 01:38 AM Words