How do you pronounce these words? #quiz #learn #english

[miguel_aquatico]

"English words" gives me a french sentence 😂

[_Degrees_North]

I'm British through and through and I still got them all wrong😂

[NeilMcAdam]

There’s me thinking lieutenant and leftenant were different ranks

[mibouloppe]

Speaking french is a cheat code... but leftenant is a lie 😂

[So_Harufied]

A lot of Americans say foy-yay as well, but people think they sound pretentious. 😂

[Dbs]

I’m French so I perfectly pronounced most of them with French accent 😅

[AD_Saffa_HD]

I've lived in Scotland for 20 years and 11 years in south africa before that and I've never heard Leftenent, it's always been lieutenant

[dikshakumari]

I just got two! After listening to him I am doubting my speaking skills. Is it only me? 😵

[andraspongracz]

Some of these are French, and the British tried to replicate the French pronunciation. Coup de grace was right, charcuterie was OK. (I would not press the vowel between t and r so hard, it's practically nonexistent: shar-küt-ri.) But foyer is actually not "foyé" but more like "foáyé". The "foá" in the beginning is pronounced similarly to the French word moi, except with an f rather than an m.

[doctorj]

American, pronounced them all correctly, I watch a lot of British TV shows & movies

[YourFavoriteGinger]

American and I got more right. The French one got me, but I was able to name both brit and merc for the foyer

[tarastreasure]

Pronouncing them in French allowed me to be correct. 🤣 Since I'm not from the US or the UK, not sure who pronounces how, I usually mix them up.

[alexanderweir]

Naild it
Of course i should do though as i am Scottish

[ruelegarridigan]

"You don't put traps in the foyer, the foyer is a safe space" - Finn the human

[gavve]

Not a Brit, and got 5/6. Result that!

[phil]

If i could read properly, i would have got more than 2

[CaioOleskovicz]

Being a latin-based language native speaker, I nailed most of them

[sparkypandamonkey]

What’s crazy is we don’t pronounce Lieutenant wrong on purpose. So it’s not common. I have heard the British way, but I thought they were separate. If you go to translate, they pronounce it as lieutenant as well. So it’s not our fault. Also we don’t say foyer, we say foye as well. Especially as a realtor I never pronounced it as Foyer.

[danekeary]

Most of those are french and since I studied it I was

[niffleheim]

I was trying to put on a British accent for this one😂