Tip 37: Commonly Mispronounced English Words

These words are too commonly mispronounced words by Singaporeans. Do a self-check now and see if you agree!

Baggage –bagige, not bagage
Absurd – abzerd, not absurd
Abalone - aberlorni, not aberlorn
Almond - ah-men, not el-men
Awry - a-rai, not a-rie
Athlete – athleet, not atherlit
Bargain –bargin, not bargain
Bon voyage - bon vwa-yazh, not bon vor-yage
Bombing – boming, not bombing
Canopy -ca-ne-py, not ca-no-py
Chauffeur -showfur, not shawfur
Children –children, not chewren
Character - care-rek-ter, not ker-rack-ter
colleague - kor-lik, not ker-lik
Comparable – comperable, not compairable
Carribean -carri-bian, not carri-bean
Detonate -dair-te-nate, not di-toe-nate
Dud -dard, not dude
Drought -dr-out, not dr-ought
Esoteric –airsotaric, not yisotaric
February – february, not febury
Facade – fur-sard, not fair-cerd
Fragile - fr-air-gile, not fray-gile
Library –laibrary, not laibary
Lullaby – lalabuy, not loolabuy
Mischievous – mischivas, not mischiveeius
Pressure – pressure, not prejure
Regardless – not irregardless
Restaurant –restront, not restorant
Singapore - sing-ng-por, not sing-ga-por
Small fry – not fly
Tastes – teists, not tei-ses
Wednesday – wenzday, not wenesday
With regard to - not with regards to
Impotent - im-per-tent, not im-poh-tent
Informative – infourmative, not infermeitive
Often – orfen, not of-ten
Probably – probabli, not probli
Pornography - poh-no-graphy, not pour-no-graphy
Vehicle – vee-i-cal, not veeheecal
Position – perzition, not pohzition
Second – sairkend, not sairkand
Jewellery – jewelri, not jewellary
Salmon – sairmen, not cellmen or sao-men
Specific – spersific, not spairsific
Sponge -s-punj, not s-ponj
Competent – kompertent, not kompitent
Comfortable - comf-ta-ble, not comfer-ta-ble
Sword – sord, not sword
Receipt - ri-seet, not ri-seept
Wrath - roarth, not rorth
Infamous -infurmous, not infaymous
Yacht - yort, not yart
Toward - te-ward, not too-word
Trio - tree-o, not trai-o
Liaise - li-ez, not lai-ez
Soften - soffen, not sof-ten
Cuisine - ku-zine, not kiu-zine
Debut - day-biew, not di-biew
Reservoir - reser-vwar, not reser-vor
Espresso -espreso, not expreso
Poignant - poi-niant, not poi-nernt

Tip 36: Past Tense

Present Tense	Past Tense
is	was
are	were
speed	sped
spit	spat
beat	beat
carry	carried
reply	replied
throw	threw
teach	taught
add	added
keep	kept
bend	bent
bite	bit
break	broke
blow	blew
bring	brought
carry	carried
catch	caught
come	came
cry	cried
cut	cut
dig	dug
do	did
draw	drew
drink	drank
drop	dropped
eat	ate
fall	fell
fight	fought
fly	flew
get	got
give	gave
go	went
grow	grew
hang	hung
hide	hid
hit	hit
hold	held
hurry	hurried
leave	left
lose	lost
make	made
met	met
put	put
read	read
write	wrote
ring	rang
rise	rose
run	ran
say	said
see	saw
sell	sold
send	sent
shake	shook
shine	shone
shut	shut
sing	sang
sit	sat
skip	skipped
sleep	slept
speak	spoke
stand	stood
steal	stole
take	took
teach	taught
tear	tore
tell	told
think	thought
tie	tied
wake	woke