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A number of Belgian beer brands, such as Silly, Prik, Slag, La Plope, Pee Klak and Witte Dikke [4] Brand names and advertising campaigns which have proved controversial throughout their existence have included the following instances: In the 1970s, hair product company Clairol created a curling iron called the Mist Stick.
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Moët, a brand of French champagne, is often pronounced with a silent T. However, the name is Dutch, and its native pronunciation is moh-ET. [13] Similarly, another winemaker, Freixenet is also pronounced with its T as [fɾəʃəˈnɛt] in the original Catalan.
Here's another metro Detroit street name that a lot of people get wrong. It's "lah-sir." 11. Milan ... Michigan pronunciation guide: 50 names may be saying wrong. Show comments. Advertisement.
Let's be honest: Some words are really hard to pronounce. So some Redditors set out to determine the most difficult words to pronounce in the English language. You ready? After more than 5,000 ...
To mark St Patrick’s Day this March 17 – and Cork actor Cillian Murphy’s Oscar win last weekend – here’s a guide, with audio clips, on how to pronounce some common Irish names.
This can be achieved with intentional malapropism (e.g. replacing erection for election), enallage (giving a sentence the wrong form, eg. "we was robbed!"), or simply replacing a letter with another letter (for example, in English, k replacing c), or symbol ($ replacing s).
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