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

[szw]

I cannot think of anything besides Leftenant/Lieutenant, which I do not actually say, only get confused about it.

[prohornblower]

I remember reading a passage out of a book in 2nd grade and the word "surprise" came up. I kept saying "SUR-priss". I said it like this for probably 2 weeks before the teacher corrected me. Not bad for a second grader, but I took my reading/spelling to heart.

[Fast Food Knight]

Superlative = SUPER-lay-tiv
scald = skowled


When I was really little:
pumpkin = punkman
ridiculous = ridic-lee-us

[RocketManJames]

Diablo, great idea for a thread...

Common ones I've seen are:

mores -- as in social mores
bisque -- seen it pronounced bis-cay way too many times
viscount -- not used often, but pronounced wrong quite a bit

Funniest:

I was at dinner, and this wannabe at the table next to ours was trying pretty hard to impress his date. Throughout the night, he was talking loudly about what a baller he was... when the server came by asking about after dinner drinks, he proudly announced, "we'll each have the best cog-nack you serve."

Ha Ha.

-RMJ

[Thythe]

I think a lot of people mis pronounce disoriented as dis-orientated, and I did for a long time too.

[LuckOfTheDraw]

I used to pronounce bureaucracy like bureau-cracy, with the "bureau" part pronounced like it is in bureaucrat.

[Etric]

Recently I thought "Wii" was prounced "Why?". Apparently it is "we".

I used to prounce fruition as "fruit-ation".

[gusmahler]

A friend of mine pronounces the word "buffet" as Boo FAY.

[jstnrgrs]

for a long time I pronounced "Album" as "Alblum". I don't know why.

I've met many people who can't seem to pronounce "Massachusetts". I think they're being lazy. It's not that hard.

[Brainwalter]

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I used to say melk instead of milk.

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Pellow too?