While handling the cases of “designer” products, the pronunciation doesn’t exactly roll themselves off the tip of our tongue. In a situation where you would be stuck conversing to a fashion designer or beauty stylist, try to save yourself the embarrassment by learning the correct pronunciation of the 15 most popular mispronounced words.
Although butchering a name wouldn’t have a consequence while on a grocery run, or skimming across the word in a magazine, it’s still nice to know how to correctly pronounce something - and mentally laugh at the next idiot who comes across the word.
Caudalie - koh-da-lee
Clé de Peau Beaute - clay duh poe BO-tay
Décolletage - day-cole-ay-taj
Frédéric Fekkai - fred-er-riq fehk-eye
Givenchy - zhee-von-she
Guerlain - gair-lahn
Illamasqua - ill-ah-moss-kwa
Issey Miyake - EE-say me-AH-kay
Kérastase - care-a-stoss
La Roche-Posay - la roshe po-ZAY
L’Occitane - lox-ee-tan
Oribe - or-bay
Rochas - ro-SHOSS
Shiseido - she-say-doe
Shu Uemura - shoe-eew-ay-murah
Which words did you find the hardest to pronounce?

October 5, 2011 01:00 PM | by