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.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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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.
inchoate Mamet(As in David) Talking about David Ma*may* was way more embarrassing cause I actually said it out loud and thought I was slick, besides.Sometimes I still get flushed cheeks if he is reviewed and I see it. Keith Olbermann used "inchoate" in a commentary so that was a private embarrassment thinking how often I thought "en-choat" and nodded at myself. Of course, my dad sometimes made fun of me for using exotic words *correctly* too, so I probably have many issues about that kind of thing.
Hyperbole.
Hyperbowl.
Yep, did that one too.
I have to check myself every time I say hyperbole out loud, because I still pronounce it hyperbowl in my head.