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

[miajag]

For a long time I pronounced "steroids" as "ster-er-oids," putting an extra syllable in for some reason.

[milesdyson]

someone mentioned "chaos."

i had a friend a long time ago who made this word rhyme with "gross." so, "choce" or something.

also, a story.

in 5th/6th/7th grade i had this girl in my class named Bertha. she didn't speak english very well at all, but the teacher would still require her to read aloud. of course, i thought it was a good idea to help her when she got stuck.

i would purpose mispronounce words as she got stuck, like this:

Bertha: "Then, the bird s.... s...."
Me: "SWAY-LOW-EH-D"
Bertha: "...the bird SWAY-LOW-EH-D the worm."

we also used to call this girl Bertha-FEX, or Hurricane Bertha. i also learned how to make elephant noises because of her.

[rwanger]

While staying at cousins house, my 12 year old brother told me that the cat was licking it's gen-ish-als.

We probably should have looked into what types of publications he had been reading at the time.

[Death Valley]

Espresso! E-S-P-R-E-S-S-O.


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[Death Valley]

Oh ya..... The first time I encountered the word/name "Stuyvesant" in print was while I was subbing in a 7th grade social studies class..... god i butchered that [censored]

[DarrenX]

Heard two different upper-management types in the same morning say "mute" point vs. "moot". And my boss says "supposably" all the time.

[chesspain]

I always pronounced dour as "dow-er," until my wife told me it was "door."

[speedfreek]

I have heard adults say Skellington instead of skeleton!

I remember after seeing the word rendevous for the first time, I thought it was pronounced REN-DEV-US for a long while.

Even nowadays I sometimes still say progidy instead of prodigy.

I have heard HYPER-BOWL for HI-PER-BO-LA
and PARA-BO-LA for PA-RAB-OLA
and PA-RAB-OLICK for PARA-BOLLICK.

[West]

albeit - I pronounced it al-bite

[Johnny 99]

I only did this once out loud. Unfortunately it was to a German exchange student.

I said something like: ...."Gothe (rhymes with 'both') is the only German writer that I know of"