How Many of These 79 Words Can You Actually Pronounce?

I make an ass out of myself at least twice a calendar month from butchering the orthoepy of a word . It ’s always embarrassing ! There ’s only two things you may do when you have no musical theme how to say something , either softly whisper but quickly color over the word so no one hears you or say it with such gross confidence that you confuse the inferno out of people who really do know how it ’s enounce .

And if those people defy to convey up the right pronunciation of the word with you , just agree with them suppose you thought it was that way too until you hear Anderson Cooper or Brian Williams sound out it your ( wrong ) way of life . It ’s foolproof ! What ? There ’s a third choice to actually figure out how the word is pronounced ? That ’s lunacy !

The very interesting and very wrinkled brain ofJohn Green of Mental Flosscame up with a list of 79 usually misspeak English words . Some of these words everyone should know how to say : colonel , epitome , meme and so on . Pwned and GIF get some clarification too ( it ’s powned andhard - g GIF ! ) . [ Mental Floss ]