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And people who don't read make fun of you for it.
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The one that I mispronounced for awhile was hyperbole. I thought it was pronounced like "hyper bowl."
Epitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
Oh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
So apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant
All mispronunciations can be defended with linguistic descriptivism. It's usually a pissweak argument though!