Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.
Panacea. I pronounced it incorrectly for a long time. Never knew because no one corrected me. Fortunately it didn’t come up too often.
So you’re just gonna leave me here saying puh-nay-shuh and not tell me how it should be?
Pan-ah-SEE-ah
I was saying puh-nay-shuh too
Likely to be “schedule”
I made the mistake of pronouncing epitome as “ep-i-tome” for a while.
Sometimes I like to pronounce it “lingerie” just to piss people off
Contiguous. Didn’t find out about that one till I got to college… That was embarrassing as f***.
One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.
Someone is peDANTic, but they themselves are a PEdant. Probably why they made that mistake
Like how we can reCORD some music and release a a REcord
Or make some COMpost by putting those scraps in the comPOST
I still put scraps into the COMpost, but only the comPOSTable scraps.
But did they say Ped-ant or PEE-dant?
I had a similar thing with the word contrarian!
Not exactly related to the question, but as a non-native English speaker, whenever I read something related to weights in imperial, e.g., 150 lbs, my mind reads it as 150 lubes.
I know it’s pounds, if I would read it out loud, I would say pounds cause I’m not a weirdo (well…). But still, my internal monologue has lbs = lubes
I was the same except I said it as “ibs” was quite a while I was thinking that when I was younger. My internal monologue still says it this way anytime I read it even though I know now
I feel you. My inner voice reads this as “libs”.
Elbs
For me its always been “limbs”
Right? I’m a native English speaker (Aussie, so…loosely native English speaker) and my first exposure to “Lbs” was for the weight of Pokemon in the physical red Pokédex handbook, so I always just said they weighed “X labs”, still don’t immediately correct it in my head 25+ years later.
I love your brain
I love your brain
Chip-o-tot-el
Chip-ol-tay
Chop a topple eee?
Arist-ot-le
It took me a long time before I found out how pilates was actually pronounced
Pontius Pilates
Nobody names their kid Pontius any more, have you observed that?
His name is Chris
And that is fine, when/if someone corrects you, you explain that you have never heard the word spoken, just read it.
Tri-ummm-vir-ate
This right here! I tell my kids not to give someone a hard time mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it from reading.
For the C/C++ nerds: Clang. There are still many people pronouncing it “Cee-lang”.
Wait but…but that means I’m supposed to pronounce it like the sound of slamming metal doors? but it’s for the C language!
am I seriously getting gif’d again?
Why is it pronounced gif when it should be pronounced jif? It’s so much clearer when you say jif! AND YES, I DO SAY GIRAFFICS! AAHHH!!
What about “Jay-feg”? The Joint Photographic Experts Group.
There is probably lots of stuff like that in coding. Href could be “huref, and it took me a while to realize that it was ‘em’ and not just ‘m’ after hearing it.
URL pronounced Earl
Charset like charamander.
Sequel server grinds my gears.
Wait until you hear stuhd, that’s how we agreed to pronounce
stdbecause “ess tee dee” would have been awkward.I like pronouncing numpy so that it rhymes with lumpy just to make people uncomfortable.
That’s how I’ve always read it…
Lol at my job someone referred to “E T C” and I was completely baffled until he actually typed it out, /etc… I just call it “ets” because it’s short for “et cetera”…
Well fsck that.
Squeal server even more
I don’t know if this is weird, but someone told me I say “ideology” weird because I say “id-ee-aa-luh-jee” instead of “ai-dee-aa-luh-jee”, and I still never changed the pronunciation anyway.
That’s just the French pronunciation
Worcestershire
There’s a Worcester in Massachusetts, local pronunciation rhymes with sister (which is in turn said like “sista”)
The whole word is silent
sauce?
That one isn’t silent
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Wash your sister sauce
And nearby Leominster
And Cirencester
Sern Stir?
It’s pronounced “siren sester”.
“-cester” is usually pronounced “stir”, I’d assume then “Sir In Stir” if I got the first part wrong
It’s English. The only rule is that actually in some cases the rules are different.
and Towcester (“toaster”)
Map Men have a few more examples
Lemon Stir
I believe it’s pronounced “wstr”
Close, that’s Worcester. Worcestershire is “wstrshr”!
Woosta! :)
Wuss-ter
Wuss-ter-sheer
Par-mee-zee-in
Oh crap, which universe are we in?
Better than Farmer John cheese, at least
Dealbreaker, we gotta find another dimension.
its aluminium
Only if you trust the French more than the guy who named it.
i do. coughs in jpg
aluminum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium
tomato tomato lets call the whole thing off!
oh what, that’s an actual spelling? I was just saying that
really its just geographic thing. i prefer the european version
Are you European?
No I’m not European, bein’ all I can
I’ve been waiting 31 years for that question
Yes, “aluminum” is the original, and “aluminium” was later adopted to make it sound more Latin.
I’ll concede aluminium when the Brits adopt platinium
theyll adopt aluminum as soon as you wrap your lips around a fag
Don’t threaten ME with a good time.
[dies of smoke inhalation]
Banal sounds like canal
US google pronounced it “beanal”
Got me on that one. Doesn’t come up in casual conversation, like, ever.
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