COMMONLY
MISPRONOUNCED
WORDS
ORAL COMMUNICATION
1| Bury
Wrong: BUH-ri
Correct: BEH-
ri
2
2| Scarce
Wrong: skars
Correct: skers
3
3| Buyer
Wrong: BUH-
yer
Correct: BAH-
yer
4
4| Cousin
Wrong: KAH-sin
Correct: KUH-
zin
5
5| Disease
Wrong: di-SEES
Correct: di-ZIZ
6
6| Southern
Wrong: SAO-thern
Correct: SUH-
thern
7
7| Oven
Wrong: OW-ven
Correct: UH-ven
8
8| Supreme
Wrong: soo-
PREEM
Correct: suh-
PREEM
9
9| War
Wrong: wahr
Correct: wohr
10
10| Duty
Wrong: JOO-tee
Correct: DU-tee /
DYU-tee
11
11| Jewel
Wrong: JOO-well
Correct: jul
12
12| Shampoo
Wrong: SHAM-
poo
Correct: sham-
POO
13
13| Fewer
Wrong: FYU-wer
Correct: FEE-
wur / fyur
14
14| Poem
Wrong: poym
Correct: POW-
em
15
15| Tuesday
Wrong: CHOOSE-
day
Correct: TOOZ-day
16
16| Graduate
(Noun)
Wrong: GRA-ju-weyt
Correct: GRA-ju-wet
17
17| Close
(Verb)
Wrong: klows
Correct: klowz
18
18| Close
(Verb)
Wrong: klows
Correct: klowz
19
19. Prestigious
pre-STI-jus
20
20. Prostrate
PRA-straight
21
21. Segue
SEG-way
22
22. Miniature
MIN-ee-uh-
choor
23
23. Intuit
in-TOO-it
24
24. Asterisk
AST-uh-risk
25
25. Acai
ah-sah-EE
26
26. Chalet
sha-LAY
27
27. affidavit
(aff-ah-DAY-vit)
28
28. anemone
(ah-NEM-oh-nee)
29
29. colonel
(KERN-ull)
30
30. colonel
(KERN-ull)
31
31. fiscal
(FISS-kull)
32
32. gala
(gay-lah)
33
33. salmon
(SAH-mon)
34
TONGUE
TWISTER
ORAL
COMMUNICATION
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled
peppers Peter Piper picked?
“
”
36 Presentation title 20XX
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make
my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make
my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought
a bit of better butter
“
”
37 Presentation title 20XX
How much wood would a
woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as
much as he could, and chuck as
much wood
As a woodchuck would if a
woodchuck could chuck wood
“
”
38 Presentation title 20XX
She sells seashells by the seashore
“
”
39 Presentation title 20XX
How can a clam cram in a clean
cream can?
“
”
40 Presentation title 20XX
I scream, you scream, we all
scream for ice cream
“
”
41 Presentation title 20XX
Susie works in a shoeshine shop.
Where she shines she sits, and
where she sits she shines.
“
”
42 Presentation title 20XX
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy
Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy
wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
“
”
43 Presentation title 20XX
Can you can a can as a canner can
can a can?
“
”
44 Presentation title 20XX
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes
does he choose?
“
”
45 Presentation title 20XX
I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
“
”
46 Presentation title 20XX
A big black bear sat on a big black
rug.
“
”
47 Presentation title 20XX
A big black bear sat on a big black
rug.
“
”
48 Presentation title 20XX
49 Presentation title
Schwa Sound (/ə/) Vowel/A/
Account
Actually
Agreement
Although
Available
Balloons
Capital
Central
Especially
Financial
Important
International
Manager
Natural
Particular
Pleasant
20XX
Political
Popular
Significant
Usually
50 Presentation title
Schwa Sound (/ə/) Vowel/E/
Achievement
Center
Department
Different
Evidence
Example
Foreign
Government
However
Interpersonal
Management
Minister
Movement
Present
President
Recent
20XX
Remember
Society
Specific
System
51 Presentation title
Schwa Sound (/ə/) Vowel/I/
Administration
Attention
Authority
Council
Distribution
Duplicate
Intricate
National
Necessarily
Official
Parliament
Production
Question
Religion
Responsibility
Retention
20XX
Security
Sufficient
University
52 Presentation title
Schwa Sound (/ə/) Vowel/O/
Community
Concerning
Considerable
Continuing
Director
Environment
Information
Memory
Obvious
Opportunity
Opposition
Original
Personal
Political
Provide
Reason
20XX
Season
Serious
Tomorrow
53 Presentation title
Schwa Sound (/ə/) Vowel/U/
Album
Calcium
Circumstance
Cultural
Curriculum
Difficulty
Maximum
Medium
Minimum
Particularly
Premium
Stadium
Substantial
Successful
Sufficient
Suggesting
20XX
Supporting
Supposedly
Unless
Upon
54 Presentation title
Schwa Sound (/ə/) /Y/
Syringe
Analysis
Pyjamas
Cylindrical
Cylindrical
Anonymous
Martyr
Mysterious
20XX
55 Presentation title
Meet our team
Takuma Hayashi
President
Mirjam Nilsson
Chief Executive Officer
Flora Berggren
Chief Operations Officer
Rajesh Santoshi
VP Marketing
20XX
Meet our extended team
Takuma Hayashi
President
Graham Barnes
VP Product
Mirjam Nilsson
Chief Executive Officer
Rowan Murphy
SEO Strategist
Flora Berggren
Chief Operations Officer
Elizabeth Moore
Product Designer
Rajesh Santoshi
VP Marketing
Robin Kline
Content Developer
Plan for
product
launch
Planning
Synergize scalable e-commerce
Marketing
Disseminate standardized metrics
Design
Coordinate e-business applications
Strategy
Foster holistically superior methodologies
Launch
Deploy strategic networks with compelling e-
business needs
Timeline
Sep 20XX
Synergize scalable
e-commerce
Jan 20XX
Coordinate e-business
applications
May 20XX
Deploy strategy
networks with
compelling e-business
needs
Nov 20XX
Disseminate
standardized
metrics
Mar 20XX
Foster holistically
superior methodologies
59 Presentation title
Areas of focus
B2B market
scenarios​
•Develop winning strategies to keep ahead of the competition
•Capitalize on low-hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value
•Visualize customer directed convergence
Cloud-based
opportunities
•Iterative approaches to corporate strategy
•Establish a management framework from the inside
20XX
60
Summary
At Contoso, we believe in giving 110%. By using
our next-generation data architecture, we help
organizations virtually manage agile workflows.
We thrive because of our market knowledge and
great team behind our product. As our CEO
says, “Efficiencies will come from proactively
transforming how we do business.”
Thank you
Mirjam Nilsson
mirjam@contoso.com
www.contoso.com

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