And more than one in ten (12 percent) have mistakenly pronounced espresso as “ex-press-oh”.
Other commonly used words which are often confused, and have multiple varieties of pronunciation, include GIF, cache, and zoology.
And jewellery, sherbet, and mischievous also made the top 25 list.
Almost half of adults (44 percent) have had someone tell them they were getting a word wrong when saying it out loud – with a quarter corrected at least once a week.
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