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How should you pronounce shifty words of French origin, like cadre, forte, and debacle?  And what about those daunting words from Greek, like chimera, machination, and gyro?  Is it so wrong to pronounce nuclear as if it rhymes with molecular? 

How you pronounce words can make a big difference—and often for the worse.  Most people have painful memories of having their pronunciation corrected at a business meeting or social event, when an effort to make a good impression has backfired.  The newest title in the best-selling series, 100 Words Almost Everyone Mispronounces, presents 100 words that people are most likely to mispronounce, or have more than one way of being pronounced, and answers the question, Which way is the right way?

Here is a complete list of the words in 100 Words Almost Everyone Mispronounces:

You can hear many of these words pronounced on this podcast.