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.

Probably. We here in the desert ain't great with the fancy book learning.

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.

I had the hyperbowl one too! I remember being corrected about it at my hs graduation party in my parent's backyard! I wonder how I could have gone that long w/out saying it out loud.

The other word/phrase was per se which I pronounced per see once as a kid and my grandfather gave me hell about it.