Pronunciación de palabras como Oaxaca.

Question

¿Existen palabras en español que se pronuncia de manera diferente a la forma de aparecer?

In English, there are many words that are spoken differently to the way they look:

Magdalen College = Mordlen College Leicester Square = Lester Square

I was looking at the word Oaxaca and the x is pronounced eck-iss, but the pronunciation is Wha-hacka

Hay otras palabras dificiles?

Answer 1

The worse word I can think of is "worcestershire" (as in worcestershire sauce), which took me years to come anywhere near pronouncing correctly: /WOO-ster-sher/ is what I´m saying at present.

I´ve said /wor-SEH-ster-SHY-er/ and /wor-ster-SHY-er/ and /WOR-ster-sher/ in the past.

Woo-ster-sheer. You are very close! - 00515f39, Nov 13, 2009

Thanks for the little correction. I shall implement it immediately. - webdunce, Nov 13, 2009

I was able to get so close due to reading a Dave Barry book, which taught me that, in fact, many British words are pronounced woo-ster. - webdunce, Nov 13, 2009

Answer 2

The town I live in is Gloucester -- pronounced "Glosta."

Answer 3

I have a friend from Hong-Kong who finds the word vocabulary very difficult to pronounce. One would think that it was pronounced vok-ab-ull-arry, but actually, it's pronounced more like voe-cab-you-lerry! I hope that this helps

That's true. - 00515f39, Nov 13, 2009