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The 15 Most Mispronounced Words in America, Ranked

From Worcestershire to GIF, these 15 words have Americans turning to Google for help with their pronunciation.

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Nothing drives me crazier than hearing someone say “mischievous” wrong. (For the record, it’s MIS-chuh-vus, not mis-CHEE-vee-us.) But a new report suggests we’ve got much bigger pronunciation issues to worry about.

Word puzzle site Unscrambler analyzed Google pronunciation searches across all 50 states from January through October 20. And the word giving Americans the most trouble? Worcestershire sauce, with around 321,600 monthly searches. We can thank chemists John Lea and William Perrins for that one. They named their sauce after the English county back in the 1830s.

GIF came in at No.........

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