Foreign Word
April 7th, 2005
What’s the strangest real accurate pronunciation of a foreign word that we mess up daily in English?
depending on how you’ve heard it, words like tortilla and chorizo when pronounced as they should are unrecognisable. Asking for a Stella Artois in a Belgian or French bar the way you ask for it at your pub will cause you to die of thirst.
The Japanese word “karaoke” should be pronounced pretty much the way it looks “kah-rah-oh-keh” . How it became “carry-okie” just bogles me. People have no problem with “karate”which is very similar “kah-rah-teh” not carry-tee (although many do mispronounce it “kah-rah-tee”)
11 English Words With Silent Letters – English Pronunciation Lesson