And then there's "epitome" (ep-i-tome) and "Penelope" (pen-e-lope).
Evil words.
You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 7:51:18 am PST #1409 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
amych - Mar 17, 2004 7:54:40 am PST #1410 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
"misled" = meye-zzld.
Silly girl. Don't you know it's pronounced "mizz-ld"?
Megan E. - Mar 17, 2004 7:55:43 am PST #1411 of 10002
I thought it was my-sled.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 7:57:56 am PST #1412 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Panache" (pan-a-shay) and "hors d'oeuvres" (not-a-clue) gave me trouble until I hit college. (I knew what hors d'oeuvres were, it just never occured to me that that unpronounceable word might be them.)
And because the firsts blog memes I encountered were those long lists of "My favorite color is... / my favorite song is... / etc," I assumed that "meme" was short for "mememememememe." It took several months for me to wonder if maybe this word "meme" that looked exactly like that other word "meme" (which I already knew) might, in fact, be that word.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2004 7:59:17 am PST #1413 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
amych is right. I misle, you misle, he misles.
Didn't get clear of that one until University. At which point I mentioned it to my sister who was also chagrined, because she'd be doing the same thing.
Which reminds me -- is "ogle" really pronounce ogg-le? In the UK too?
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Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 8:01:15 am PST #1414 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Which reminds me -- is "ogle" really pronounce ogg-le?
I've always pronounced it "oh-gle."
Susan W. - Mar 17, 2004 8:02:13 am PST #1415 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Mine was awry. Which I pronounced as aw-ree until sometime in high school. At least, I hope it was h.s. I have a vague recollection it was my friend Lee who finally corrected me, which would've made it college.
bon bon - Mar 17, 2004 8:03:08 am PST #1416 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Word on the misled thing!
People have made fun of me for the stress I use with allegory. aLLEGory.
Consuela - Mar 17, 2004 8:22:19 am PST #1417 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh-gul. I think. But it's not a word I hear used much.
Had a friend who said TaFETTa, for the material. And I think I pronounced segue SegGew, rhyming with glue.
Ginger - Mar 17, 2004 8:33:03 am PST #1418 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Lay-pel for lapel was an embarassing moment. There are a number of words that I learned from reading that I'm still not sure I'm pronouncing correctly. Fortunately, they're too esoteric for my audience to know. I just try to say them with conviction.
When I was in college, we had a talk from a campus cop about being careful on campus -- one of those "If you go out at night alone you might be attacked or eaten by a vampire" talks. He kept saying, "Don't be mizzelled, young ladies, into thinking you're safe. Just don't be mizzelled." It took until the next day for my brain to translate that into "misled."