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You’d Be Shocked at How These Common Words Were Pronounced

But with English becoming the de facto national language again came another major change, called today the Great Vowel Shift, where all English vowels, as well as several consonants, seem to have changed.

Let’s Learn About 7 of the Longest Words!

The longest words made entirely of either vowels or consonants Vowels and consonants are basic elements to form any word. Without them, we can’t even imagine how a word can be formed. But did you know there are some words that appear in dictionaries made completely of either vowels or consonants?

10 Common French Loanwords You’re Probably Mispronouncing

Hors d’oeuvres How we pronounce it: or durves How it’s pronounced: or doovre Another way to refer to an appetizer or starter, here we can see an example of metathesis, a linguistic phenomenon where consonants are interchanged for ease of pronunciation, as “vr” isn’t a common consonant cluster in English

15 Geographical Facts That’ll Make You Want To Go Exploring

Towns that only have vowels in their names Source Some towns don’t like consonants. Aiea in Hawaii and Eiao in the Marquise Islands is two such examples. Italy’s Mount Circeo on Cape Circaeum was once named Aeaea, and in mythology it is long believed to be the home of a witch, Circe. 12.

Hilarious 13 Tattoos Terribly Translated

Chinese characters, known as Hanzi or Kanji, do not denote consonants the way Latin letters do. Rather, each symbol denotes an entire word or meaning. Even among languages that do have a phonetic alphabet, not all operate the same way that English does.

These Are the Most Mispronounced Countries in the World

Kyrgyzstan There are seven Asian countries with the -stan suffix, and most of them have plenty of consonants in their names (such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan). But Kyrgyzstan is the trickiest of them all, as its name is a proper tongue-twister .

Learn All About the 7 Ancient Greek Types of Love

But there are many other ways to love, not all of which are consistent or consonant with romantic love. By preoccupying ourselves with romantic love, we tend to neglect other types of love that tend to be more accessible and that may, in the long term prove more healing and fulfilling.

11 Surprising Facts About Dictionaries You Never Knew!

For instance, ‘Wye's Dictionary Of Improbable Words: All-Vowel Words And All-Consonant Words’ helps you find some uncommon words that you wouldn’t have heard before. Then there is ‘Mrs.