Hilarious pronunciations - fun never the less!

Ah it is strange that I have to type it up, hp eonly you read this!!! My husband and me had a love marriage and when we were 'just going around', that time I was in a hostel and desperately looking for a flat, i just happened to ask him 'what waould be the 'coast' of table and chair'? !!! he has been trying to change my prnonciation of this cost and coast, but I still confuse it. I didnt realize until he pointed out and since then I have totally stopped using cost and use price instead. but when I had to study finance, it was pretty difficult!! there are more, hoarse and horse, road and rod hi hi

Here within USA people use different pronunciation in every state. I don't understand some people from south. Our pronunciation is probably far away from the right English...

yes i do and i did, being an instructor, and a non-native english speaker it is really quite a hassle. Many times i get so conscious of the word (in the train of thoughts) and the pronunciation to get the accent is quite a challenge at times, I have a few encounters of what you went through. But I guess the thing with it is just don't get conscious and you'll be amazed of your english. Maybe you acquired that habit by being a non-english speaker, and your native language may require some form of accent and pronunciation that is very opposite to english. But I guess the best is just to communicate, You understand them and you also being understood. More power vandana and happy new year.

hi vandana I was reminded of my son when he was in the fourth or fifth grade and was told pronunciation was pronounced pro nun ciation and he was going why not pronoun ciation? I was going by phonetics as that was how I was taught and they were going by the sight of the word, but he was forgetting how the word was really spelled. I also pronounce complexity as caumplexity my self asin dotcom. as it seems more natural to me. I am American born and bred but still that way of pronouncing complexity seems right to me. I have smiled at one friend in college who was an Indian who pronounced green beans as grean be ans. with emphasis on the ean sound. all of them laughed at him til I told him leave out that a sound just say green beans and you will be fine. then they had to find someone else to laugh at instead. I think our English language is one of the hardest languages to learn for other cultures as its so full of exceptions and words from all over the world.

This post reminds me of an ex-colleague of mine. She was selling a tour package to a couple of tourists and was explaining to them about the itinerary. So, when she mentioned that the package was inclusive of 'snacks', one of the tourists, a woman suddenly cried out in panic. My friend was puzzled at her reaction but then they found it was hilarious because of my friend's pronunciation, the woman actually thought she mentioned 'snakes'. At my place, some people just pronounce some words without compromising on the actual pronunciations, but we could easily understand the meaning. Mostly likely, 'h' will be omitted such as the word 'three' becomes 'tree' he he...