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DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 9:20:03 am PDT #29800 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So, query to the board. A comic plot point in the last episode of HIMYM was that Ted mispronounced "chameleon" (as CHAM-uh-Leon) because it was a word that he had learned through reading and had little opportunity to use it aloud.

I myself have suffered the indignity of being laughed in my face by two people for mispronouncing "chimera" (the combination of it being a staple in my fantasy and mythology reading and having nobody to talk about it being the issue).

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:20:22 am PDT #29801 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

And in a last-minute miracle, the Vegas flight went down! OK, that's done. Oy.

Yeah, I had the same issue booking my London flight. It was steady and then suddenly it dropped by $50 one night and then I didn't buy it so it went up $100 the next morning and then by the time I was ready to buy it, it had thankfully gone down $75 or so, so I bought it, and then the next morning it was up $50 again. CRAZY.

Of course, if I bought my flight for Friday right now it would be $3,000. So there's that.

Those Smithsonian ads are awesome.

Happy birthday, Raq!

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

Until a few years ago, I thought bedraggled was pronounced "bed-raggled." My friend Emily corrected me. I was so confused.

Sue - Mar 23, 2011 9:23:38 am PDT #29802 of 30001
hip deep in pie

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

I have a blind spot for revelation. Unless I stop and think for a second, it comes out my mouth as "relevation".

Also there's a restaurant in town called Sushi Shige that is a nightmare for me to say. But that's more of a tounge twisting issue.

Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 9:24:06 am PDT #29803 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

WorldNetDaily is a known wingnut site. I'm peeved I followed the link before I realized who it was.

Oh noes, the Christians are persecuted! Yeah, right. Pull the other one.

Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 9:24:21 am PDT #29804 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

epitome

Lee - Mar 23, 2011 9:25:16 am PDT #29805 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

Prodigal, and very

DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 9:26:00 am PDT #29806 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

"Ennui" - that's a bitch the first time you try to pronounce it.

Oh and "macabre." Ultimately you need to watch a lot of overblown horror parodies until you've heard "Master of the Macabre" to get it right.

Also the names "Sean" and "Geoff."

Amy - Mar 23, 2011 9:26:23 am PDT #29807 of 30001
Because books.

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

Segue and archipelago.

SailAweigh - Mar 23, 2011 9:29:01 am PDT #29808 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Mine was epitome. I was reading out loud to my mother when I was around 10-11 and pronounced it "ep'-i-tome." Imagine my surprise when she corrected it to "e-pit'-o-me." I've been suspicious of words ending in "e" ever since. Is it English or is it Greek???

Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 9:29:38 am PDT #29809 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

fact: elizabeth taylor outlived the person who wrote her NY Times obit.

Wow.

I know there are a couple of words I still don't have solidly in my head, but I can't remember what they are right now.

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