Help me with words I can’t pronounce

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Prompted by a few recent threads. I’ve realised there are loads of words I can’t pronouce. I can probably google or something but all together here seems better.

I’ve only in the last number of years figured out hyperbole is not hyper bowl and superfluous is not super-flu-us

Here are ones I still can’t pronounce..

Archetypal
Macabre
Gillet
Hegemony
Chipotle

There’s actually loads more I just can’t think of now.

Norris I think it's

Be-eh-moath

Prah-leen.

beer moth (without a rhotic R so maybe more like bee-uh-moth for many people)

I say Hegg-e-mon-ee too, it was used a lot in my sociology A level course!

Thanks Seneca .... I've heard pray-leen, pray-line, and am forever mixing up.

It is helpful to focus on the stressed syllable and then the rest falls into place. I did languages at university and a lecturer there advised someone who couldn't say millennium to focus on the LEN. It worked. And it was 1999 so quite an important word!

@PorpentinaScamander blooming spellcheck - hy per bo le with a longish last e

sourdoh Plenty of people say pray-leen, but as a former resident of New Orleans, I can assure you that prah-leen is the way to go. An outstanding confectionery, by the way.

Also while I am at it, the nut in a praline is a puh-CAHN.

Oh! We say pee-can 😆

So its a short 'e'

Every days a school day.

Lichen is one that I sometimes forget.

Latte is one that I hear mispronounced the most often.

Thanks *disfor seems I have been saying superfluous correctly after all. (In my head anyway. Not sure I've ever said it in conversation)

Archetypal - ark-uh-TYPE-uhl
Macabre - mak-AHB
Gillet - ZHEE-lay
Hegemony - heh-GEM-uh-nee
Chipotle - chi-POTE-lay
Behemoth - buh-HEE-muth

Oh, and soo-PER-floo-us!

I was a Politics student and it was always 'hegg-eh-munny' in lectures.

Everything Cel982 said!

"Also while I am at it, the nut in a praline is a puh-CAHN"

Not in England it isn't

I pronounce pecan - pee-can. Is that wrong?

Lichen is like-en

Not in England it isn't.

Don't I know it. As a native of the top pecan producing state in the US (Georgia), I do cringe just a little bit whenever the folks on the Geat British Bake-Off decide to make something with my favorite nut.

What? A pecan is a purrcan? First syllable like something a cat does? Surely not!

Although actually, it is only in America that praline contains pecans. In Europe, it is usually hazelnut or almond.

Not purr can, puh cahn.

But I say peecan.

I cannot say “preliminary”

My DD cannot do flamingo - they are flimbo’s!!

How does puh-can differ from purr-can?

I can’t say the th part of anathema it always comes out like T, anattuhma. Eventually convinced others that’s how it’s supposed to be pronounced even though I know it’s not 😳

Yep, chipotle is Chip-Oat-Lay

‘How does puh-can differ from purr-can?’

One has Rs in it, the other one doesn’t. A cat doesn’t puhhh, but it does purrr :)