Jayne ,'The Message'
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."
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.
OreGANo. Whuh? And, well, why? Still a question: damask, DAM-isk or Duh-MAHSK or Duh-MASK? (Go DAM-isk, choose DAM-isk!)
I say DAM-isk. With conviction.
"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.
My sister once asked what epi-scopal was. We were so confused until she showed us the word.
Still a question: damask, DAM-isk or Duh-MAHSK or Duh-MASK? (Go DAM-isk, choose DAM-isk!)
I say it like Damascus.
When I was very, very little, I thought babies were born with unbiblical cords. But that was a case of having heard the word but not read it rather than the other way around.
Meem, juliana.
I had a very embarrassing incident with the word facade in 7th grade or so....
In 7th grade, reading aloud from a science textbook, I (repeatedly) pronounced "organism" minus one very important syllable. This did not assist my efforts to be thought of as "cool".
The worst part was watching the teacher. He was giggling too hard to catch his breath long enough to stop and correct me.
DAM-ask and AHG-el, FWIW.
And my word was "frappe." I pronounced it "FRAP." Which produced gales of laughter from my friend who had had French.
I deserved it, though; I'm a habitual corrector of pronounciation. I try to do it gently, but payback's a bitch.