Learning Pronunciation Pronunciation means saying a word aloud. The degree of distinctness of pronunciation is called enunciation. Sometimes words may have more than one acceptable pronunciation. Dictionaries list all the acceptable pronunciations. Pronunciation problems in English.
English words follow a number of complicated pronunciation rules.
The majority of words follow these rules. However, English has more irregular pronunciations than many other languages have and many occur among the most frequently used words. Largely for this reason, many people consider English a difficult language to pronounce. Letters and combinations of letters in English often have more than one pronunciation. One reason for this is that there are only 26 letters to represent about 40 different sounds.