The top 25 most mispronounced words have been revealed, including quinoa, parliament - and even ‘pronunciation’. A poll of 2,000 adults found 17 per cent say ‘kin-oh-ah’ rather than ‘keen-wah’ for the popular grain, quinoa.
And more than one in 10 (12 per cent) have mistakenly pronounced espresso as 'ex-press-oh'. Other commonly used words which are often confused, and have multiple varieties of pronunciation, include GIF, cache and zoology.
While jewellery, sherbet and mischievous also made the top 25 list. And 44 per cent of adults have had someone tell them they were getting a word wrong when saying it out loud - with a quarter corrected at least once a week.
