Overview
- Unscramblerer.com examined Google Trends data from January 1 through October 27 for searches such as "how to pronounce" and "how do you pronounce."
- The national list is led by "gyro" with 312,000 searches, followed by "Worcestershire sauce" with 300,000 and then "acai," "Qatar" and "dachshund."
- "Paczki" ranked ninth nationally with 36,000 searches and is identified as the most mispronounced term in both Ohio and Michigan.
- A spokesperson said people look up pronunciations when spelling and sound diverge, noting that media exposure and social pressures contribute to curiosity.
- Coverage cites a Cambridge survey reporting over 60% regularly mispronounce at least one common word and Oxford research saying spelling matches sound about 75% of the time.