The following was compiled by Omni Magazine, using the CBS News Pronunciation Guide. While nonsensical, it nonetheless contains more than 100 of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language. Correct pronunciation is a matter of majority rule. Dictionaries don't dictate how the language must be spoken, they only report how it is spoken.
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J.R.R. Tolkien was taking chemotherapy for his asthma. "I already gave my hemoglobin and albumen," he said with vehemence, "and I have a donor coupon among my memorabilia to prove it. "My last meal was made with basil, herbs, and chestnuts, with cognac and root beer on the side. I never use conch shells, because they can cause bacilli to grow and wreak havoc with the exquisite gourmet dish." "Such banal, puerile gibberish," said the long-lived King Oedipus, who had often been called controversial, mischievous, ingenious, and even genial, but who underneath was a consummate blackguard with bestial habits. "Our transient envoy has agreed to share our nuclear expertise with his clandestine liason in Kenya." P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Georges Seurat, Auguste Rodin, William Butler Yeats, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Klee, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other cognoscenti took the following route around the world: from Puerto Rico in the Caribbean to Cannes and Lourdes in France, then a quick hop to Tunisia and up to Edinbugh and Copenhagen, Denmark. They flew from there over Peking to Hawaii, then back to Nevada; New Orleans, Louisiana; Oregon; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Louisville, Kentucky. "Forensics is not my forte," said Modigliani with acumen. To be succinct, he said he found his niche putting caulk on poinsettias. He looked like an archangel with antennae: "I am implaccable." "Tsk, tsk," said the prelate from the pulpit. "Avoid all familiarity with grievous sins and any sacrilegious machinations designed to achieve supremacy or cause a melee. Don't accept jewelry as a gift from the magi or allow a heinous siege on the enclave in the city." As a coup de grace, the mayoral candidate drew a fleur-de-lis on the gondola, thus putting his imprimatur on the vehicle. Wait! There's more. What do the following words have in common ? Advertisement * Adult * Amenable * Angina * Apricot * Cerebral Conduit * Culinary * Data * Domocile * Dour * Era * Flaccid Genealogy * Giblet * Grimace * Harass * Hiroshima * Incognito Inexplicable * Inquiry * Lamentable * Moscow * Presentation Research * Sadist * Schism * Secretive * Status * Slough || FIND OUT || Place your cursor over the words 'find out' to get the answer.