音素学习100个经常发错音单词和词组.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 12 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English A No: acrossed | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../across across It is easy to confuse across with crossed but better to keep them separate. ? No: affidavid | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../affidavit affidavit Even if your lawyers name is David, he issues affidavits. ? No: Old-timers disease | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../alzheimer-s-disease Alzheimers disease While it is a disease of old-timers, it is named for the German neurologist, Dr. Alois Alzheimer. ? No: Antartic | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../antarctic Antarctic Just think of an arc of ants (an ant arc) and that should help you keep the [c] in the pronunciation of this word. ? No: Artic | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../arctic Arctic Another hard-to-see [c] but it is there. ? No: aks | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../ask ask This mispronunciation has been around for so long (over 1,000 years) that linguist HYPERLINK /about/experts.html \l aronoff Mark Aronoff thinks we should cherish it as a part of our linguistic heritage. Most of us would give the axe to aks. ? No: athelete, atheletic | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../athlete athlete, HYPERLINK /../../athletic athletic Two syllables are enough for athlete. B No: barbituate | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../barbiturate barbiturate Dont forget this word contains three others: bar+bit+u+rate ? No: bob wire | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../barbed-wire barbed wire No, this word wasnt named for anyone named Bob; it should be barbed wire, although the suffix -ed, meaning having, is fading away in the U.S. ? No: bidness | Yes: HYPERLINK /../../business business 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 HYPERLINK /library/mispron.html \l isnt#isnt isnt and HYPERLINK /library/mispron.html \l wasnt#wasnt wasnt. ? No: a blessing in the skies | Yes: a HYPERLINK /../../blessing blessing in HYPERLINK /../../disguise disguise This phrase is n