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Women and biscuits: common pronunciation errors in English

by Liz Walter,

November 04, 2015

There’s no getting away from the fact that pronunciation in English is difficult. Unlike many other languages, the relationship between the letters in a word and its sound is often weak, to say the least. For this reason, there are pronunciation problems with extremely common words which I notice over and over