Spike ,'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
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Thanks Kate! I was wondering. It's an unusual experience for me, the usually prolific reader, to know the sound of a word before I know the look of the word. Signed, the person who was certain "segue" was pronounced "seg-goo" from reading it for many years without having heard it spoken, and many other similar examples. I learned at a very early age to look up words and their etymology, but I tended to skip over sounding out pronunciation!
I learned at a very early age to look up words and their etymology, but I tended to skip over sounding out pronunciation!
One of the nice feature of online dictionaries is the pronounciation button, where you can hear the word properly pronounced.
I had a very embarrassing incident with the word facade in 7th grade or so....
"fuckedy?" Hee. My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."
I still say "munciple" in my head, only just managing to rearrange it to municiple before it hits audible.
"fuckedy?"
nope, "fa-Kade"
My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."
I said it "chay-ous"
I used to think "draught" was a totally different word than "draft."
Until I was about 18 or so. No, really.
cha-ose. Long O.
I somehow managed to get "chaos" right, and still derive "chow-tic" from it.
How funny. My embarrassing incident was fuh-KADE in 7th grade, and Greg's was chowse. It's nice to be in such good company.