[Mabadiliko] English Pronunciation

I want to apologize to everyone for taking such a long vacation from this regular column. We have not done this for about 2 weeks now and as a result, I've accumulated quite a collection of words that really confuse people. I'll present 10 today so as not to overwhelm us.

But before I get to that, I just wast to commend my favourite station, KTN of Kenya, for the efforts they have made in the last few weeks to make sure that their on-air reporters are now pronouncing words very well and correctly. I have no complaint completely about any of the on-air reporters right now. The only mispronunciations that I have gathered this week are really from the people being interviewed.

Hongera KTN.
I would urge the field reporters though to be a bit more vigilant. I noticed a few mistakes here and there from them but nothing to complain much about. The best teams so far have been the Yvonne Okwara/Wilson Mburu  and Linda Ogutu/Ben Kitili. Even Anne Kiguta and Betty Kyalo have been superb at individual levels.
Since KTN has now cleaned up its act, I may now move on to start monitoring Citizen TV and NTV.

Now let's embark upon some selected words that I've collected in the last 2 weeks.

Hysteria

Someone said:        H-A-I-S-T-I-R-I-A

The correct way is:  H-I-S-T-E-R-I-A

Equally

Someone said:      E-K-W-A-L-I

the correct way is: I-K-W-O-L-I

Mutually

Someone said: M-U-CH-W-A-L-I

The correct way is: M-Y-U-CH-W-O-L-I    (the O is very soft)

Combination

Someone said:      K-O-MB-A-I-N-E-SH-O-N

the correct way is: K-O-MB-I-N-E-SH-O-N    
(the second O is a very soft O, not hard)

Invitation

Someone said:       I-N-V-A-I-T-E-SH-O-N

The correct way is: I-N-V-I-T-E-SH-O-N         (the O is very soft)

Flour

Someone said:       F-L-A-A

The correct way is: F-L-A-W-A    (Flower is also pronounced the same way)

Eke -----(as in eking out a living, struggling)

Someone said:         I-K

The correct way is:   E-K

Heroin  ---  (Dawa ya kulevya)

Someone said:       H-I-R-O-I-N

The correct way is: H-E-R-O-I-N

Severance

Someone said:       S-A-V-I-A-R-E-NZ

The correct way is: S-E-V-E-R-E-NZ

Renaissance

Someone said:       R-I-N-A-I-S-A-NZ

The correct way is: R-E-N-E-S-A-NZ

I hope this is helpful just in case you were not sure of any of the words.

Courage

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