Well there are many but some surface alot. Add on any that you think are worth correcting and hopefully get people to fix their words and avoid embarassing their kids infront of our white masters.
Bear (bhaloo). How desis say it: beer. errr
Quebec (the province). How desis say it: kiu-bec. Remember, its kwi-bec not kiu.
Lion. How desis say it: loy-un. Again, its lai-un, not loy-un.
Re: Common english words that most desis pronounce incorrectly
i believe it not good to make fun on the ground of language.
language is just a tool of communication, where their rhetorical devices just another way to showoff.
i am sure many of us dont recite Quran-e-Pak properly.
whereas it will be a million dollar question that how many of you actually know all the alphabets of Urdu?
Re: Common english words that most desis pronounce incorrectly
ya Urdu RoCkkzzzz
rite now i am learning to understand my mother language.
b/t i know Sindhi more than punjabi.
btw on this urdu stance, i have seen guys sit on two extreme side of the specture. either they are really really good in urdu or they dont even know wat Alif bay is!
prime examples r our leaderz. (lets keep the BB’s urdu aside for a while :p)
Re: Common english words that most desis pronounce incorrectly
I never saw an english person making mock of my english pronounciation as they knew it was not language during my two years stay in London. This is the problem of some of the BBCDs only.