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How to spell pronunciation

What it means: The way in which a word is spoken.

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The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as pronounciation or prononciation.

Same family: pronounce, pronounced, pronouncing, mispronounce, mispronunciation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Pronunciation” comes from Latin *pronuntiatio*, meaning “a proclaiming or announcing.” Interestingly, many native speakers mistakenly spell it as “pronounciation,” even though the verb is “pronounce.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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