So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Prodigal, and very
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So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Prodigal, and very
"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."
So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Segue and archipelago.
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???
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.
Segue
Right?
and archipelago.
I actually corrected my high school English teacher on this one. He sort of blinked and said, "No, I think you're right."
Guillotine.
epitome
Oh yeah, I definitely thought that was pronounced like it looks. Don't remember when I found out the right way, though.
So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Proprietor (PROP-uh-teer), Toledo (TOE-le-doh), and mausoleum (maw-SO-lee-um). I still get mausoleum wrong half the time. It was embarrassing and infuriating. I was a kid, in all three cases, and it was my family laughing at me.
I still don't know how to pronounce archipelago.
ark-ə-PEL-ah-go.