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Overview- 10 words were used

Antarctic Cacophony

Dilate Federal Masonry Parliament

Suite Zoology Pronunciation Miniature

20 people of each gender ofboth adults and teens weretested on theirpronunciation of all 10

words.

Results were tabulated in anExcel Sheet.

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Results Male adults had a correct

pronunciation rate of53.5%.

Female adults had acorrect pronunciation

rate of 58%.

Male teens had a correct

pronunciation rateof70.5%.

Female teens had a correctpronunciation rateof

71.5%.

Male adults had awrong pronunciationrate of 46.5%.Female adults had awrong pronunciationrate of 42%.

Male teens had awrongpronunciation rate

of 29.5%.Female teens had awrongpronunciation rate

of 28.5%.

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Order of WordsThis was the original list of words.

Antarctic

Cacophony

Dilate Federal

Masonry

Parliament

Suite Zoology

Pronunciation

Miniature

Order of words from hardest toeasiest.

Masonry

Cacophony Miniature

Pronunciation

Antarctic

Dilate

Suite

Zoology

Federal

Parliament

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In-Depth StatisticsMasonry

Maleadults

Femaleadults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

9 10 9 11

11 10 11 9

Cacophony

Maleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

9 10 11 10

11 10 9 10

Maleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

8 9 12 14

11 10 9 6

MiniatureMaleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

9 10 13 12

11 10 7 8

Pronunciation

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In-Depth Statistics

Male

adults

Femal

eAdults

Male

Teens

Femal

eTeens

9 13 16 17

11 7 4 3

Male

adults

Femal

eAdults

Male

Teens

Femal

eTeens

13 12 16 17

7 8 4 3

Maleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

10 13 17 15

10 7 3 5

Maleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

12 10 15 12

8 10 5 8

Antarctic Dilate

Suite Zoology

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In-Depth Statistics

Maleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

12 14 15 19

8 6 5 1

Maleadults

FemaleAdults

MaleTeens

FemaleTeens

16 15 17 16

4 5 3 4

Federal Parliament

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Common Errors Masonry pronounced as

Ma-son-a-ry

Cacophony pronounced as

cau-ca-pho-ny

Miniature pronounced asMini-ture

Pronunciation pronoucedas Pro-noun-ci-a-tion

Antarctic pronounced asAn-tar-tic

Dilate pronounced as Di-a-late

Suite pronounced as Suit

Zoology pronouced asZoo-or-le-gy

Federal pronounced asFed-ral

Parliament pronouced asPar-la-ment

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What does survey show?Adults have a lower correct pronunciation rate when

compared to teenagers.

Males have lower correct pronunciation rates whencompared to females.

Uncommon words such as Masonry and Cacophonyare rare to find and as such harder to pronounce.

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What can we do to improve

pronunciation? Increase vocabulary as vocabulary = pronunciation

Help correct each other on mistakes regarding

pronunciation Listen to oral media (radio, television, podcasts)