epitome
Oh yeah, I definitely thought that was pronounced like it looks. Don't remember when I found out the right way, though.
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:33:44 am PDT #29812 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Zenkitty - Mar 23, 2011 9:34:16 am PDT #29813 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2011 9:36:12 am PDT #29814 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
ark-ə-PEL-ah-go.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:38:08 am PDT #29815 of 30001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
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.
Allyson - Mar 23, 2011 9:39:22 am PDT #29816 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hyperbole.
Hyperbowl.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:39:43 am PDT #29817 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, did that one too.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:15 am PDT #29818 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I have to check myself every time I say hyperbole out loud, because I still pronounce it hyperbowl in my head.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:36 am PDT #29819 of 30001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Probably. We here in the desert ain't great with the fancy book learning.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:37 am PDT #29820 of 30001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 9:42:52 am PDT #29821 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I know I mispronounced a lot of words, but I can't remember them now. I do have a friend who struggled with taffeta, which she pronounced taFETTa.
The book I'm reading right now, Being Wrong, talks about how there is no real state of being wrong, because when we're wrong, we are convinced we're right, and then when we transition to being right, we often manage to forget that we were ever wrong. Being wrong, in fact, feels the same as being right--the emotional damage is merely in that transition from one to the other, where we might be confused or defensive or embarrassed.