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.
But, more importantly, how were you pronouncing "erudite"?
Ha! That, at least, I knew how to pronounce.
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.
I say fack, but that's because I come from a military background, and they LOVE making abbreviations into words (although, technically the definition of an acronym is when the initials form a word in common usage, i.e. NASA, but not C.I.A.). I mean, I call the High Occupancy Vehicle lane the HOV (prounounced "huv") lane.
