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.
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
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."
Susan W. - Mar 17, 2004 8:02:13 am PST #1415 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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."
juliana - Mar 17, 2004 8:54:39 am PST #1419 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
It took several months for me to wonder if maybe this word "meme" that looked exactly like that other word "meme"
Okay, so how is "meme" pronounced? Me-Me? meem? mem?
There are a number of words that I learned from reading that I'm still not sure I'm pronouncing correctly.
Yup. I can't remember specifics, but yup.
Beverly - Mar 17, 2004 8:58:33 am PST #1420 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
OreGANo. Whuh? And, well, why? Still a question: damask, DAM-isk or Duh-MAHSK or Duh-MASK? (Go DAM-isk, choose DAM-isk!)
Ginger - Mar 17, 2004 9:02:48 am PST #1421 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I say DAM-isk. With conviction.
Dani - Mar 17, 2004 9:03:03 am PST #1422 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
"misled" = meye-zzld
Jess P is me. I still see it that way when reading, though I can say it correctly.
I remember reading a book set in Australia and asking my mother what a "ewcallyPUCKtus" tree was. She didn't laugh... much.
ETA that I say dah-MASK.
Jess M. - Mar 17, 2004 9:16:03 am PST #1423 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
My sister once asked what epi-scopal was. We were so confused until she showed us the word.
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2004 9:33:46 am PST #1424 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Still a question: damask, DAM-isk or Duh-MAHSK or Duh-MASK? (Go DAM-isk, choose DAM-isk!)
I say it like Damascus.