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

[zimmer879]

draught

[MagicNinja]

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Used to say Trates. Maybe that's also right but I have been convinced trays is more correct.

[Borodog]

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Used to say Trates. Maybe that's also right but I have been convinced trays is more correct.

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Uh, WTF?

[Matt Flynn]

potable as "pot" - you put the damn stuff in a pot - the world got it wrong
aisle as "ass-isle" ("Which isle was that Matt?")

[Matt Flynn]

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

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for the longest time I've pronounced it "Taxachusetts". Woops.

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It's "Mass-o-two-sh!ts" after a few winters there. But not during Red Sox season.

[Rushmore]

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Used to say Trates. Maybe that's also right but I have been convinced trays is more correct.

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Uh, WTF?

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[econophile]

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draught

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surprisingly, this is pronounced CHECK-urs

[robber baron]

sundry - would pronounce it in my head as sun-dreye; didn't know it should've been sundree
cache - I pronounce it as "cashay" although I hear people pronounce it as "cash"
minutae - "minoosha" I would pronounce it as "min-you-tay"

[Tron]

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Used to say Trates. Maybe that's also right but I have been convinced trays is more correct.

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Uh, WTF?

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He also pronounces "grill" as "baaahhhhhbee"

[Rushmore]

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Today in a business meeting someone used the word hyperbole in describing some situation. Except that he pronounced it "hyper-bowl."

When I was a kid, every time I read the word "awry" I pronounced it "aw-ree" in my head. Luckily, I never had occassion to actually use that word. One day while reading, for some random reason, my brain decided to pronounce it "a-rye" and a lightbulb went off in my head and I knew before going to the dictionary that that was how you pronounce it.

Your turn.

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This is excellent. For the longest time, whenever I saw the word "barfly," I just could not figure out what the hell it was supposed to mean, because it was in my head as a damned adverb ("--ee").

Then I became one, so I naturally learned how to pronounce it.