There are many words in the english language that are pronounced in different ways, it just depends on the person who is saying it. Some of the most popular words that are pronounced differently are listed below. They are listed in results from a poll was taken to see how many people say a certain pronunciation of a word compared to the other.
1. People were asked how they pronounced “route” and out of of 46 votes, 26% said “root” and 74% said “rowt.”
2. People were asked how they pronounced “aunt” and out of 46 votes, 83% said “ant” and 17% said “ahnt.”
3. People were asked how they pronounced “often” and out of 22 votes, 91% said “often” and 9% said “ofen.”
4. People were asked how they pronounced “envelope” and out of 16 votes 75% said “envelope” and 25% said “onvelope.”
5. People were asked how they pronounced “caramel” and out of 14 votes, 29% said “caramel” and 71% said carmel.”
6. People were asked how they pronounced “either” and of 16 votes, 88% said “eether” and 12% said “eyether.”
7. People were asked how they pronounced “neither” and out of 18 votes, 94% said “neether” and 6% said “neyether.”
8. People were asked how they pronounced “milk” and out of 17 votes, 94% said “milk” and 6% said “melk.”
9. People were asked how they pronounced “almond” and out of 34 votes, 76% said “allmond” and 24%csaid amond
10. People were asked how they pronounced “crayon” and out of 34 votes, 47% said “cran” and 53% said “cray-on.”