'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
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.
Erin, be not embarrassed.
Frappes in New England are pronounced, "frap". At least, they are if you're talking about a very thick milk shake.
Mmm, now I want a Fribble.
Thank you, PMoon.
And my word was "frappe." I pronounced it "FRAP."
You're not alone. Almost everyone in MN pronounces it "frap". I thought it was common. "Hot dish" for "casserole", now....
heh...half my homework in the seventh grade had "orgasm" on it cause my notetaker wasn't very smart. But I got embarrassed trying to correct it.
"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.)
I did that, too. I was a bit younger, and asked my mother if whores dovers were the same as Hors d'ouevres.
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.
This was mine too, only just when I was reading it. I knew how to pronounce the word "awry" without ever connecting it to that ow-rie word I was always reading in books, until one day, when I was in my 20s, someone asked me how to spell "awry" (in its proper pronunciation), and I had the inevitable "omigod" moment.
Oh, I also pronounced vapid as vaypid. So, it was almost ironic that I mispronounced it when I used it. There I was being all erudite and proclaiming something vaypid, and I was mispronouncing.
There I was being all erudite and proclaiming something vaypid, and I was mispronouncing.
But, more importantly, how were you pronouncing "erudite"?
Heh. Co-worker and I just had a long discussion about whether one pronounces "FAQ" as a word ("fack"), or as letters (F-A-Q). I say word; he says letters.
This came up because I'm creating a FAQ about our journal's style guide, as the proofreaders seem to have chosen to ignore housestyle, and I'm tired of having an embolism about that fact.