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.
hearing St. John pronounced always confused me.
Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"? Who the fuck is that? Is he a genie?
Hebert, anyone?
Ha!(Aay-bear) Also: Calliope (Cal-ee-OPE), Burgundy (Ber-GUN-dy), Esplanade (ESS-plaa-nade)
Perdita
Wasn't that the mom dog's name in 101 Dalmations? I'm pretty sure that was per-DEETA.
Heh. Uni-kway.
You guys Imma 'bout to round up a posse and head to LA to string some people up by their toes.
Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"? Who the fuck is that? Is he a genie?
I used to hear it on Monty Python and always thought it was just a silly name (as in Norman St. John Polevaulter).
My favorite is Chartres because everyone wants it to be pronounced the French way.
Do you know Kara refused to call Saban SAY-bun? It was SAH-bahn.
