ever pronounce a word wrong for a long time

Another one caused by missing accent marks: Cliché as something like "clitch" (rhyming with "glitch"). I first learned I was wrong from a Stone Temple Pilots song, of all things: "Ride the Cliché" rhymes it with "paid".

edited 25th Dec '14 7:21:40 PM by MikeK

I still pronounce it that way. Screw everyone who doesn't.

Everyone is wrong except for me.

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I got the idea that "legacy" is pronounced with a soft G. Sometimes I still slip up.

My father is big on Linux and used to pronounce it "Lye-nux". I didn't hear anyone but him say it until I went to college. I never directly corrected him, but I slipped up and pronounced it the way Torvalds does in front of him once, and he commented that I'd obviously found that clip of Torvalds saying it. Now he says it that way too.

I still say "gif" with a hard G. It's too late to retcon that.

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I've never heard it not "lye-nux".

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

Not me, but my younger sister has always, and still does, pronnounced 'ask' as 'arks'.

I added a y to "similar," pronouncing it "sim-yi-lar," until one of my bosses corrected me. My mom also pronounces it that way, so at least I know where I got it from.

Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)

Eh, at least it's a creative mispronoununciation. 'Round these parts, "ax" isn't uncommon (and I say it myself a bunch).

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My Legend of Zelda love has me wondering:

"How the hell do you pronounce Gerudo? Or Farore?"

I've actually learned how to pronounce a lot of weird place-names due to growing up in Arizona. Everyone who's ever lived there has heard tourists and film/tv from other places pronounce things wrong.

In which I attempt to be a writer.

@ Brahian it's bar-OZH. Also my brother thought barracks was "bar-ax"

edited 27th Dec '14 11:45:44 AM by Bootlebat

I STILL keep pronouncing the prefix "faux" as rhyming with "bow" (as in "taking a bow"), even though it's supposed to rhyme with "low".

"Thanks for the lesson. But I don't need you to tell me who I am."

Also, I owe my current nickname to the fact that EVERYONE pronounces "beansidhe" as "been seed hay" and i'm too lazy to correct them.

I joined the police just to kill people.

My dad once pronounced "queue" like "kwee".

Stupid doomed timeline...

I've always pronounced them /ˌGə'rōō.dō/ and /ˌFə'rōr.ə/ (occasionally /ˌFə'rōr/). Not sure about Gerudo, but the katakana (フロル) supports the pronunciation of the latter.

edited 30th Dec '14 2:32:29 PM by Midna

I thought the name Ian was pronounced "I an" how it's spelled instead of "ee-en"

I used to say Penelope as "Penny-lope" and segue as "Seeg"

Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.

I've been pronouncing "nonchalantly" for so long. It's NON-shah-lunt-lee, not non-KA-lunt-lee.

edited 5th Mar '15 2:46:08 AM by TroperNo9001

"Anemone dear, I know you want to be more independent from me, but... please take care, okay?"

I managed to piss off my Trekkie friend when he found out that I've been mispronouncing "Nimoy" for years.

I don’t even know anymore.

I've been mispronouncing d'Urberville for awhile because I keep forgetting that the word has two r's as opposed to one r.

"Thanks for the lesson. But I don't need you to tell me who I am."

Not quite the same as this thread's purpose, but I always thought that Shawn was the only spelling of that name. I think I thought it was weird when I was really little and saw "Sean" spelled out there at one point while watching Barney.

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I used to think "category" was pronounced kah-TEE-goh-ree rather than KAH-tuh-goh-ree. It provoked a storm of laughter when I said it that way at a party once.

Oh yeah, that too. Took me a long time to figure out "Sean" wasn't pronounced seen.

edited 6th Mar '15 4:39:37 AM by MidnightRambler

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...

Relatedly, I used to think "Dillon" was the only way the name could be spelled and that "Dylan" was pronounced "DIE-luhn".

I also pronounced reprise "REE-prize" instead of "ruh-PREEZ".

edited 8th Mar '15 1:49:01 PM by Midna

Which is why I thought Sean Bean's name was so funny for the longest time.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

Teetotaler's pronounced "TEE-toh-tah-lur", not "TEE-too-TAY-lur". However, I find the wrong pronunciation fun to say.

edited 11th Mar '15 9:34:40 PM by TroperNo9001

"Anemone dear, I know you want to be more independent from me, but... please take care, okay?"

Because I started reading complicated books at a very early age, I know a lot of words that people my age might not know but I don't know how to pronounce them.

I pronounced bear as beer