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Words you mispronounced for ages
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| Lira |
It's not exactly unusual to learn a word a certain way, and then realise you're the only person saying it with your very own special twist. Sometimes the new pronunciation makes so much more sense because it reminds you of what it stands for (like Old-timer's Disease instead of Alzheimer's Disease), and sometimes small changes become so common they become the standard pronunciation (the old word for Sushipunk's stalkees was bryd, not bird) - this thread is not about things whole communities do, because these otherwise normal processes are often seen as signs of ignorance... so I'd like to aks you to leave that out. What I want to know is: what words/expressions did you (and you only) blithely mispronounce until later in life?
In my case:- Until my late teens, I thought Darth Vader's name was "Dark Vader".
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| Meat187 |
| For a while I pronounced Bas like Baz. :o |
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| VAR |
the girl's name Gina.
it should be pronounced jahy-nuh,
as in vagina. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
For a while I pronounced Bas like Baz. :o |
:stongue: @ your sig!
You need to make that clickable though :p |
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| Acton |
| I used to pronounce tomato tomato, but now I pronounce it tomato. |
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| Redd |
| I've never pronounced anything wrong. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
I've never pronounced anything wrong. |
Swedes and Danes beg to differ ;) |
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| Redd |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Swedes and Danes beg to differ ;) |
They know nothing! |
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| Meat187 |
I used to pronounce pear in a way that it rhymes with spear for a while. :o
Also, Ygrene. Imagine my disappointment when I played a recording of "Energy" backwards and it sounded nothing like why-green. :( |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
For a while I pronounced Bas like Baz. :o |
That is how it's pronounced. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
That is how it's pronounced. |
Really, with a Z!? I pronounce it with a final "s" (my pronunciation probably sounds like "boss" in California English).
But, yeah, I used to say "bace" as in "bass line"... it never occurred to me it could be an Arab name :p |
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| KilldaDJ |
rifle as in when you go through something like a pack of cards
i keep saying 'riffle' rather than 'ryfle'
i have since fixed that. |
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