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

[olliejen]

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...hegemony should be pronounced as a "g" or "j". I was pretty sure that hegemony was a "j"...

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hahahha...i read this outloud as "hedge-E-moh-nee" and then i heard the right way...

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/hegemony.html

[NutCrackerr]

most people mispronounce the word aluminium, I still do all the time.

It's ah-loo-min-ee-um

not ah-loom-in-um

[econophile]

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most people mispronounce the word aluminium, I still do all the time.

It's ah-loo-min-ee-um

not ah-loom-in-um

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wtf? are you british?

[offTopic]

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

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My fiancee and her brother both do this. She also pronounces "mundane" as "MYOON-dane".

When I read, my internal ear still "hears" "epitome" as "eh-pee-tome", even though I know how the word is pronounced.

[Borodog]

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most people mispronounce the word aluminium, I still do all the time.

It's ah-loo-min-ee-um

not ah-loom-in-um

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lol

Do you believe most people mispronounce "anticlockwise" as "counterclockwise" as well?

[Duke]

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supposedly i pronounce "knock" as rhyming with coke.

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Do you ever order large cocks from McDonald's?

~D

[El Diablo]

Daryn: Some words of foreign origin maintain their original pronunciation in English, others don't. Bruschetta is one where the primary pronunciation is not the same as in Italian.

Magic: Traits as "trays" - as Boro said, WTF?

sam: "homogenous" - Did you misspell homogeneous on purpose? Because that's one I used to pronounce [censored]-genius, then changed to huh-moh-juh-nus because that's what everyone seems to say, and now look it up to find that [censored]-genius appears to be correct.

Dendrite: "Ethernet. I used a long E." - for which E? The first one is long (E-thur-net)

NSChandler: for-tay is perfectly acceptable for forte and likely the primary pronunciation.

Nut: In America, it's uh-loo-minum

[Actual God]

I was reading a Hardy Boys book, and there was this computer virus that was central to the plot, and it kept flashing this mysterious word on the computer screen -- CHAOS. I was like, what's Chows?

[Jack of Arcades]

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Sherbet.


I've always pronounced it sherbert.

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This is not incorrect. Sherbert is another spelling of it.

[Duke]

Once I was reading a resume, and came across 'apolipoprotein.'

me: a - polly - pop - ritene

It's more obvious how to say it if you work backwards. Damnit.

~D