
Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if you were to discover that you’d been saying something completely wrong your entire life.
Well, hope you wouldn’t find it too embarrassing as the fact is that you’ve most likely been saying these 32 well-known places entirely wrong. You idiot.
In your defense though, that’s because everyone is saying them wrong. And we’ve just sort of accepted these pronunciations even though they aren’t correct.
Below you’ll find the 32 place names alongside the correct pronunciation written phonetically. Prepare to cringe…
And after that, how about checking out how to say the word ‘chorizo’. You might be surprised there too…
- Melbourne, Australia
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Beijing, China
- Colorado
- Colombia, South America
- Carnegie Hall, New York
- Budapest
- Lafayette, Louisiana
- Mackinac Bridge, Michigan
- Iraq
- Dubai
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Brisbane, Australia
- La Jolla, California
- Helena, Montana
- Pakistan
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Niger
- Kissimmee, Florida
- Thames River, UK
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Phuket, Thailand
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Tijuana
- Worcestershire, UK
- Qatar
- Spokane, Washington
- Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem
- Versailles, France
- Yosemite
- Worcester, Massachusetts
- Montreal, Canada
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