I have to check myself every time I say hyperbole out loud, because I still pronounce it hyperbowl in my head.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:15 am PDT #29818 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 9:41:36 am PDT #29819 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
lisah - Mar 23, 2011 9:44:05 am PDT #29822 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
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.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 9:44:44 am PDT #29823 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
I still don't know how to pronounce "inchoate"! Luckily, I don't know how to use it in a sentence, either. And I'm not sure about Mamet, but I've definitely done that kind of thing with other people/words.
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 9:46:01 am PDT #29824 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I still don't know how to pronounce "inchoate"!
in-KOH-ut
lisah - Mar 23, 2011 9:47:16 am PDT #29825 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
It's totally in-KOH-ate in my head.
hippocampus - Mar 23, 2011 9:48:04 am PDT #29826 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?
Schuykill, Conshohocken, Bala Cynwyd, Manayunk, Gladwyne... growing up in Philly will mess you up.
Fell's Point was hard too - Thames Street is pronounced with a "Th".
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 9:48:16 am PDT #29827 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I'm still 90% sure it will never be anything but like at the prep school in my head. In Choate!