haha, I'd never thought of that, but it's true :D

Currently staying here for a week and I have no idea how to pronounce Etobicoke. I'm sure it's not "Et oh buy coke". I asked a couple of canadiens but that hasn't helped because what comes out of their mouth is so far removed from the spelling.

I wonder if by the same criteria the opposite also holds true. Are misspelled words dishonorable? And if yes does it matter if they're nouns or other functional words like there/they're/their ?

This happened to me.... The word was hyperbole. I said it as hyper bowl ee.

The kicker is I've heard the word hyperbole before, pronounced correctly, and never knew what it meant, nor how it was spelled.

So I spoke to someone who was a bit more linguistically inclined, both verbally and written (hes also older than me by a few years, and more "into" art and culture)... And he said "you mean hyperbole?" And everything finally clicked. At the time I was embarrassed because I knew both the written and pronounced versions of it, but never put them together, so I felt like it was something I should have been able to figure out on my own and didn't.

Now? If someone made the same correction to something similar, I'd be like. Ohhhhhh. That makes more sense. Thanks! Instead, I basically exited the situation to go die in private from embarrassment.

I should not have been embarrassed.

I love learning new things.

Hysteresis got me.

This happens to me a lot in the medical field. "Parenchymal" has been my most recent, and I have to think about it every time I hear it or try to say it

I read it in my head as PAIR-EN-KIME-AL, but it's pronounced PA-RINKA-MAL... though how I read it does help me to spell it

Some words I still can't pronounce, but I know how to "read", such as "klebsiella aerogenes"

While we're on the subject: "Tachypneic" is pronounced like "TA-KIP-NIK", but I never hear anyone try and pronounce "Bradypneic". One would assume that it's pronounced like "BRA-DIP-NIK" (or maybe "BRAY-DIP-NIK"), but I can't confirm. I think saying "bradypneic" intimidates people

Since we're on the topic there's this historical word that I haven't heard pronounced in English, Alexander the Great had a bunch of generals that were called the Diadochi, I haven't seen this term pronounced in English, but recently I've taken into account the way English speakers pronounce words and I was wondering if the way I'm pronouncing it in English is correct or if I am just wrong.

I've been pronouncing it in an English context as: "Die-a-Dough-key" I'm no linguist so I'm not sure how to write pronunciations sorry if it looks dumb.

I wonder how this works for logographic systems like Chinese, where the letter tells you nothing about the sound (though tbf English spelling is so bad that it's almost at that level too).

Anyone remember the Eyjafjallajökull outbreak in Iceland?

As a kid I used to pronounce amoeba as “a-MO-ba” instead of “a-MEE-ba”.

I was pronouncing "Byrne" like "buy-er-nie" until I saw someone who had that last name pronounce it like "burn". The way I was pronouncing it was as if I was excitedly saying "bye Ernie" 😂

I refuse to believe unscurpulous is pronounced in that goofy ass way. People say that in courtrooms goddamn it.

Suff-ice.

:(

See holler, tow-up.

This feels like my Achilles heel sometimes

…or from my word-a-day calendar.

My wife is Jewish. One day when she was very little, she and her mother were walking around the neighborhood and saw a Christmas wreath hanging somewhere. Having previously read the word in a book where it was spelled a lot like the word "breath," she asked her mother why they didn't have a "wreth" in their home.

In our household we now and forever pronounce it "wreth" on purpose because of how much I love that story.

This was me as a 7 year-old, reading The Hobbit and LotR. 33 years, and many rereads later, I still pronounce Gollum as golem and Smaug as smog.