Re: Hearing a word the first time in your life.
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I have had the experience of reading a word and sounding it out in my head but upon hearing it spoken I realize I was pronouncing it wrong.
eg.
centrifical
i had read it but not heard it and pronounced it SEN-tri-fic-al, when it is actually sen-TRIF-i-cal.
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i've done this with names of authors like twice in the past few months and looked like a clown both times
once in front of a girl i was hitting on (for some reason we were talking about recent books we'd read, i had just finished reading the stranger, and called the author "kam-us." whoops.).
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