"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.

I say f-a-q.

FAQ = fack, to me.

I say "fack"

I say fack.

Fack here.