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I had problems with these words in London:
Mercedes
Stapler
Bus stop
With my name: whenever I spelt my name they started it with "E" whereas it starts with "A".
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do you know french! i want to learn french, teach me french zzz
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i knew it , but i have forgotten it 
Parle bien la franc`ias?
can’t remember how much of it is correct 
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I pronounce all my words correctly.
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The word "crescent" was a real problem for me in London.
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homogenous - homo genius 
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Birthday - budday.
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iskuul - school
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iskuul - school
Yes! My freind's sons in London made a mock of me on calling "iskuul"!
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my friends mom cannot say the word PLURAL.....she tried, but just cant say it! but its so cute! lol
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Efficient = Afishent (Guilty)
Emergency = Amerjensy (Guilty)
Buddhism = Budahism (Roman says that)
Following are road names
Burnhamthorpe = Burma-thorpe (desi cabies)
Mavis = Maavus (desi cabies)
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Most non-English speakers mispronounce ‘Wednesday’. IMO, this is the most commonly mispronounced word and is one of the quirks of American english. It should be pronounced w
nz
d
(wenz-day) and NOT ‘Wed-nuss-day’ (‘d’ should be silent).
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we had an uncle who was famous for saying "i will see you in situmbar" to an angraiz colleague
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Since we have "wed-nuss-day", we can't forget "sachur-day" (saturday)
Also,
skeletal muscle = skleeeeeeetal muscle
theory = theoory
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and you have missed the most commong word ...
f*ck... desis pronounce as faaak
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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.
really? did you ever see the show mind your language?
or the party..etc
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we had an uncle who was famous for saying "i will see you in situmbar" to an angraiz colleague
janvary
furvury
murch
aprael
mai
joon
joolai
agast
situmbar
actoober
navambar
dicumber
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Measure- mai-yur
pleasure- plai-yur
treasure- trai-yur
although I think these errors are limited to punjabi english speakers. I remember when I moved to pak and my prof had asked us to mai-yur something, I was like hih what?
oh yah and how can one forget,, the desi word of pay-nis
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Condom= Kun-dum
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Shut up - Sharaap ’ I say u sharaap’ 