Words you pronounced wrong for a long time (or others do)

[LuckOfTheDraw]

Oh yeah. I used to pronounced sycophant PSYCHO-PHANT. I actually got called out on this one several years ago after using it in a sentence and was thoroughly embarrassed.

[ddubois]

I thought eschew was "eh-SHOO" for many years.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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I thought eschew was "eh-SHOO" for many years.

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Eh-Shoo is the more common (and correct) way to pronounce this word.

[miajag]

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I thought eschew was "eh-SHOO" for many years.

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Eh-Shoo is the more common (and correct) way to pronounce this word.

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He had me scared there for a second.

[Parlay Slow]

pronounced ethereal as "etha-real"

[miajag]

Mine:
- Viscount (mentioned earlier, thought it was pronounced like "discount" until I was about 20)
- Decapitate (pronounced it "decapulate" until early-mid teens)
- Someone else mentioned bass, I knew the difference between the fish and the instrument, but I always pronounced the baseball player Kevin Bass' name like the instrument.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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Viscount

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I don't remember ever seeing or hearing this word until this thread.

[ddubois]

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I thought eschew was "eh-SHOO" for many years.

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Eh-Shoo is the more common (and correct) way to pronounce this word.

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Interesting. Neither dictionary.com, nor the audio book Verbal Advanatage (where I first learned of my 'error'), even mention a pronunciation other than es-CHOO.

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(es-choo)


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accent on the choo in the dictionary

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eschew

[RacersEdge]

I can't think of any personally, but I have just heard this one woman at work say the the color copier is out of "cayenne".