Arkansas. Let's not get out of hand with apportioning national blame here. You even have a fucking Kansas.

What's the issue? Arkansass and Kansaw. Clear as day.

I think the issue there was appropriating Native American words and fucking them up. It's not the deliberate perfidy of the English. Just plain old American stupidity.

It took me a while after we moved to LA to learn the right way to pronounce Sepulveda and Tujunga.

Oh, please, it's actually GLOS-tah.

In New England, yes. In Shakespeare, no.

They do the Warsh for Wash thing in Maryland and Pennsylvania too.

It took me a while after we moved to LA to learn the right way to pronounce Sepulveda and Tujunga.

I sprained my tongue trying to pronounce La Cienega.

Sip-ol-vay-duh!!!

Too-jung-gah!!

I think I pronounced almosted everything listed here wrong at some point. Also, I thought "scheduled" was pronounced "shielded" and there were two different words- come-promise and com-PRO-mize. And there was the horrible whores dovers moment when my mother told me never to say that word ever, ever, but not how to pronounce it properly.

Last year I realized enmity was not actually emnity. I was both pronouncing and spelling it wrong, and nobody had ever noticed.

Last year I realized the word I was spelling and saying "exorbinant" is actually exorbitant. And I found this out because I complained that someone had spelled it wrong. Ooops

They do the Warsh for Wash thing in Maryland and Pennsylvania too.

It may just be a hick thing. My grandmother said it along with winders.

So, which words did you mispronounce and how embarrassing was it when you were corrected?

epitome

My sistah!

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

Wait, it isn’t?

I had trouble with unique (uni-quay, anybody?).

Also, a lot of Yiddish words, like chutzpah.

As for British words/pronounciations, hearing St. John pronounced always confused me.

Oh- and my diurector is insisting that the proper pronounciation of Perdita is not per-DEETAH but PER-di-tuh. I have never heard it that way.