How native speakers pronounce “wrong”

because we talked to the little boy afterward and said, "You OK with that?" They said, "Yeah, why? Was that wrong?" They just switched.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

If they don't know, they'll have a go. Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original --

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

you'll never come up with anything original -- if you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

"If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?" (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Whenever there's a disaster, a team of experts come in and they try to figure out what went wrong, right? Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

Well, in the pre-mortem, Danny explained, you look ahead and you try to figure out all the things that could go wrong, and then you try to figure out what you can do

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

have been the result of energy utility faults -- where something breaks, something goes wrong, there's a short, it starts a fire.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

therapists, and even their sexual partners. What could go wrong? We're already seeing massive cognitive

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

write reports and repeat. And don’t get me wrong, this work is important. But too often we mistake process for progress.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

I have to say that some of us have to reckon with the fact that we may be with the wrong person. And that will be clear

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

and arriving looking and feeling your best. Neither one is wrong. But I had a great model for this with my parents.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

than those we asked to connect with the person sitting next to them. People’s beliefs about social interaction here weren’t just wrong -- they were precisely backward.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

you wouldn't try it, and then you'd never find out that you might be wrong about that. Pessimistic beliefs in that way are self-fulfilling.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

that your mechanic has to plug into your car and find out exactly what's wrong with it, because the textbook of medicine

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

(Laughter) And don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for equations, but for a generation that is growing up on TikTok and YouTube,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

and lung cancer, but you'd be wrong. We learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

I said, "Why, you know the right thing to do as well as I do. You haven't done anything wrong." He said, "Please, just look after this patient for me."

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

The right words can win and the wrong words huge difference. Five months ago, I stood before that podium

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

They're not going to go against their president, they said. I thought that was wrong. But the real problem

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

My second thought? “What in the world is wrong with me?” People have died at that podium,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

Justice Sotomayor, I wish I had an hour to talk about this with you, because this argument by the government is wrong every which way. Justice Alito: I wonder if you ever thought

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

There are lots of services, products and advice columns that tell us we're sleeping wrong. Not enough,

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

Not enough, not quality sleep, wrong position. Even worse, you might find scary messaging

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

Quite a few think it's inevitable, and some, some think it's here already. I think they're wrong. I want to tell you why and why this matters so much.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

so many stories about suffering, about pain, about things going wrong, about things being destroyed.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

We think, "Oh my God, maybe I'm gross. And maybe that means that there's something bad or wrong about me." The thing is, that if you de facto associate gross stuff with immorality,

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

If people make bets and they stand to lose if they get it wrong, they'll try to get it right.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

that's a verifiable fact. If I'm wrong, you can challenge me. But if I reject your loan application

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

and want to use OpenClaw, for example, to find smarter ways? Just checking whether anything might be going wrong and giving an early alarm to someone or something like that?

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

filled with opportunities to live remarkably. I always thought that there was something wrong with me for not wanting to get married.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

or worse, a straight jacket. Now, don't get me wrong, I have plenty of problems. There's a lot of things wrong with me.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

Now, don't get me wrong, I have plenty of problems. There's a lot of things wrong with me. But putting a ring on it is not going to solve my problems.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

What if I told you that's because we've been given the wrong advice our whole lives? What if I told you there's another way,

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

which may lead them to respond to your vulnerability negatively. And that doesn't mean that you did anything wrong. I mean, I think if you continue to try to be vulnerable with this person

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

to more healthful, home-cooked meals. What could possibly go wrong? Well, overnight, her blood sugar dropped dangerously low,

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

things like apologizing for a misdirected, snarky text or correcting someone when they've said your name wrong. Why is that?

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

It makes me cringe even more to imagine walking through life as someone who allows other people to call her the wrong name. Both of them are a risk.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

Let me be clear. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing what you love for work. We work more than we do just about anything else,

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

I voted for that person, you voted for this one. I know I'm in the right, which means you must be in the wrong. But when we're joined together in a moment of silence,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

in order to profit off all of us. And while there’s nothing wrong with being on cottagecore TikTok, it is a kind of echo chamber that affirms your cottagecore personality.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

and try to understand what are the positive sides, but also what might have gone wrong, to eventually create our own and personal idea

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

Which says, for something to be funny, it has to have just the right amount of wrong. Now I didn’t use any theories to create that cartoon.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

(Laughter) Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the wrong word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

over and over again. The choice between the hard right and the easy wrong. It seems hard to choose correctly,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

It seems hard to choose correctly, but it would turn out to be even harder to take what looks like the easy wrong. Is it realistic to ignore the fact that right now,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

But the rest of us have a stake in this. This could be why they've been consistently wrong in their predictions in the past.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

electric vehicle sales would barely increase. Well, they were wrong. Here's what it is.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

So here's what I believe that the so-called climate realists are most wrong about. They don't believe that we, the people who live on this planet,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

and the South African solar market would keep going up and up and up. We were wrong about that. The solar market has fallen back actually in South Africa in 2024,

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

Years later, I was fired from Facebook after donating 9,000 dollars to the wrong political candidate. And that left me with a choice.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

And there is that star-like pattern that you see in the bottom right. Our first suggestion that something may be wrong here. But no forensic technique is perfect.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

but surely better than wasting time with the wrong person rushing toward climax in sex or rushing

Romance

but it might be just in a few years. And I saw how it could go wrong because we didn't, and we still don’t, have ways to make sure

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

who never existed -- something about that just felt a little wrong to me. And that's why I lied to you guys up front.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

to come up with our own guardrails for how to use AI, what's right and what's wrong. And for me, it kind of comes down to three things.

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED · TED

We've heard that story before. What's wrong with this picture? For one thing, it's only one step removed from this,

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

"You will leave a legacy around ..." Bottom line, you can't do this wrong. It's impossible.

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

on the hundreds of things that go right every day, as opposed to the three or four that go wrong. And it reminded me of the astounding interconnectedness or our world.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

But just because you feel guilt and shame, does not mean you did something wrong. Just because you feel regret

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

Clearly, I had to make some changes. I'm still going to be the commander, don't get me wrong, but I had to make some adjustments along the way.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

It's because of them. Whenever something goes wrong, it's on you. The second thing I learned was that in order to be an effective CEO,

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

or anything else you learned in your MBAs, and that stuff is valuable, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't inspire.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

I didn't feel that warm glow I was expecting. So I started to wonder if maybe there was something wrong with my research or something wrong with me.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

So I started to wonder if maybe there was something wrong with my research or something wrong with me. My own lackluster emotional response to giving was especially puzzling

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

My own relationship was only a few months old, and I felt like people were asking the wrong question in the first place. What would knowing whether or not we were still together really tell them?

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

said that agentic AI is the thing to pay attention to. This is when everything could go wrong as we give power to AI to go out onto the internet to do stuff.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

the moment where, you know, escape happened and potential -- things could go horribly wrong. How do you both release agentic AI

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

but not be overseduced by it because things could go horribly wrong. (Applause)

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

(Laughter) "And how are you personally accountable if you're wrong?" SA: No, it was good.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And I think you will see us do more in that direction. And when we have gotten things wrong, because the elites in the room had a different opinion

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

that we fell out of love with our loved one or we chose wrong. There is also a daily practice that we observe in thriving couples

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

the United States now I'm not saying that it's wrong for him to try to remove illegal immigrants from the United

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

And then they would leap into trying to prove that they were right, and their partners were wrong. OK, so think of a very expressive basketball coach on the sidelines.

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

and it's much easier to be reasonable and to listen well. Now, what do couples do who fight right versus fight wrong? The couples who are really struggling and distressed

Even Healthy Couples Fight — the Difference Is How | Julie and John Gottman | TED · TED

because I'm scared -- Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile: That I'm wrong. BR: That I'm wrong,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile: That I'm wrong. BR: That I'm wrong, and because I respect it so much that I know there's something inside

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

There's a great value in discovery, in doing the wrong thing and learning for yourself, as opposed to learning what the wrong thing is

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

in doing the wrong thing and learning for yourself, as opposed to learning what the wrong thing is and never trying the wrong thing.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

as opposed to learning what the wrong thing is and never trying the wrong thing. BR: So the first question I have is,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

And so oftentimes I won't call him for advice because I'm scared -- SRYA: That I'm wrong. BR: That I’m wrong,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

SRYA: That I'm wrong. BR: That I’m wrong, and because I respect it so much

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

Like, what do you think about this? I don't want to make the wrong decision. It hit me, like, my dad's never bought a house before, you know?

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

Is your potential partner the one is the wrong question. In fact, I believe that's a question that is more likely to lead to divorce.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

can handle things and people trust me and if things go wrong, I'm going to be able to figure out how to make them

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

did you do as a kid that went really wrong? And I'll just tell you one quick

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

up is great. When something goes wrong, uh that's when you realize like, oh, I

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

of the, "You're not listening to me," and "I don't know what's wrong with me but your criticism isn't helping," and, "If you loved me, you would," and, "You're not there for me."

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

and think of turning back if streams meet the wrong sea and their whole lives run off-track

Naima Penniman: "Being Human" | TED Countdown · TED

Awkward moments and uncomfortable, or you may like, stuff up and send the wrong text or say the wrong thing, and then you have to, like,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

or you may like, stuff up and send the wrong text or say the wrong thing, and then you have to, like, show up, apologize or forgive someone.

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

and so do bad things. Always apologize when you've done something wrong, but don't you ever apologize

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

and it could kind of be like where we let e-scooters and e-bikes go and throttle them when they're in the wrong area. Or this could be like when you go to the supermarket

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED