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Aug 31

Even more easily-misspelled words

Posted on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 in Misspelled words

Here are a few easily misspelled words:

restaurateur – does not contain restaurant

sacrilegious – does not contain religious

susceptible – does not contain able

temperamental – has an a between temper and mental

Aug 30

More easily-misspelled words

Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 in Misspelled words

Here are a few easily misspelled words:

lieutenant – like in lieu of

plagiarism – just memorize it

pneumonia – like pneumatic

reminiscence – from reminisce which is hard to spell itself

Aug 29

Easily misspelled words

Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2010 in Misspelled words

Here are a few easily misspelled words:

Caribbean – with double Bs

desiccate – with double Cs

flabbergasted – with double Bs

forfeit – an exception to the I before E except after C rule

Aug 28

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (AK)

Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to Alaska to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

Nenana – nee-NAN-ah

Tanana – TAN-uh-naw

Chitina – CHIT-NAW

Tok – toke

Aug 27

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (HI)

Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to Hawaii [we wish!] to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

Honolulu – HO-NO-lulu

Aug 26

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (CA)

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to California to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

La Jolla – la HOY-a

Miraleste – mirra-lest

Calle Mayor – cally-mayer

Visalia – vice-ALE-ia

Los Banos – los bannos

Placerville – PLASS-ur-vill

Port Hueneme – port y-NEE-me

Tehama – te-HAY-ma

Aug 25

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (OR)

Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to Oregon to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

Oregon – OR-ih-guhn

Tigard – TYE-gerd

Tualatin – too-AW-luht-un

Aug 24

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (WA)

Posted on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to Washington to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

Spokane – spo-CAN

Sequim – squim

Puyallup – pew-AL-lup

Aug 23

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (ID)

Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to Idaho to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

Boise – BOY-see

Moscow – MA-sko

Weiser – WEE-zur

Aug 22

You ain’t from ’round here, are ya? (NV)

Posted on Sunday, August 22, 2010 in Pronunciation

Now we go to Nevada to see how the locals pronounce their city names.

Nevada – nuh-VAD-uh

[There is so much informationn on the mispronunciation of this state name that I could not develop a list of local pronunications of town names.]