Did you know that "colonel" is pronounced the same as "kernel"? That there’s neither “green” nor “witch” in the pronunciation of Greenwich? Or that “iron” is not pronounced as “I Ron” but as “eye-rn”? Most learners pronounce hundreds of words incorrectly during some stage of their "career" as English speakers. This book contains the following:
- A detailed explanation of over 300 words that most learners pronounce wrong, and more than 500 mispronounced words overall
- Common error patterns in English pronunciation
- More than one hundred English heteronyms (words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently)
- Basics of the International Phonetic Alphabet and English phonology
