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.

I still don't know how to pronounce "inchoate"!

in-KOH-ut

It's totally in-KOH-ate in my head.

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".

Yeah, I'm still 90% sure it will never be anything but like at the prep school in my head. In Choate!

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.

In my head, it's still mahCAHbrah. Still.

I would probably have said "David Ma*may*" too, erika!

The book I'm reading right now, Being Wrong

Holy crap, I'm reading this: [link]

We should compare notes.

It struck me after watching Phil Plait's Don't Be a Dick talk, where he asks, "how many of you were ever convinced you that you were wrong about something by someone who called you a moron?"

And I thought, "I am guilty of this all day."

I keep trying, and failing, to be more like Jilli.

Apparrently I've been pronouncing inchoate wrong all these years. But I have never heard it pronounced the way y'all claim it is.

ETA: Okay, Cambridge dictionary says "in-co-ate". Phew, I'm good. [link]

mahCAHbrah

Is that wrong? I'm starting to think I don't know how to pronounce anything!

Allyson, that's so funny! I picked it up because I discovered this blog [link] that the writer was posting on Slate, and it looked pretty cool.

I just started it, and so far it's mostly been philosophy and the history of science: I hope it gets more entertaining soon.