My mother could not say the name Nelson without putting the letter T in between the syllables, Neltson. I'm afraid we mocked her for it, which she took with good grace. I never tried her on Wilson.
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.
One of my girls says "bitch" by pronouncing every one of the last 3 consonants.
Misled is my word. How the fuck I got to university thinking "misle" was a verb--I should be ashamed of myself.
Then I found out my considerably more erudite sister did the same thing.
Allyson, I'd love to meet your mother. Seriously.
Who has 2 thumbs and does not want to hop on her newsletter conference call in 3 minutes?
I'm similar with February and Wednesday. I know how to pronounce them correctly, but I mis-pronounce them in my head for spelling purposes.
I talk so quickly that I pronounce "twenty" like a lot of people do -- "twenny." And the nuns in my high school, for some reason, always pounced on that and would stop me (or whoever said it) and make them pronounce it correctly -- "twen-tee."
And I still say it "twenny."
You should be a rapper called 20 Cent.
I had a teacher in high school that busted me for saying "git" instead of "get."
Misled is my word. How the fuck I got to university thinking "misle" was a verb--I should be ashamed of myself.
Then I found out my considerably more erudite sister did the same thing.
Heh. My very smart dad used to mispronounce it that way as a kid, and now I can't see the word without pronouncing it MIZE-ld in my head.
"Erudite" is one I still have to think about sometimes. (It's ERR-you-dite, right? I always want to say ERR-oo-dite.)
I had a HUGE fight with my father about the pronunciation of Amazon (I thought it was "amazin'"). In my defense I was 7 at the time.
Last year I realized enmity was not actually emnity. I was both pronouncing and spelling it wrong, and nobody had ever noticed.
My pronunciation is OK, but my spelling is pretty atrocious, especially for someone who works with words all day. Still, Greek names? Like Iphegenia or Persephone or Aeschyllus? I am fairly sure I can neither speak nor spell them.
My BiL is really into Taoism, which he pronounces T aoism. I tried to convince him he was wrong, but finally gave up. Perhaps I'm the one who is wrong? Isn't it pronounced D aoism? At least, that's what my high school religions teacher taught me.