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Most of us know the feeling of charging into a word full bore, only to dodder halfway in, panicking that we are saying it wrong. What are some of the most commonly mispronounced names or words?

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In a clever experiment, Word Tips mined the Forvo pronunciation dictionary to see which high search words – across a variety of categories – people had to repeat-listen to most until they got it right. Some of their findings..

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