ever pronounce a word wrong for a long time

I've pronounced fatigue as Fat-eh-guew.

My brother thought feign was pronounced "fijin" (rhymes with pigeon)

"Sew", apparently, is pronounced "sow" (rhyming with "tow"), and not "see-w". By extension, "sewing" is pronounced "sowing", not "see-wing".

how did you think it was pronounced like that for so long?

I was pronouncing the word based on how it is written.

I'm still a bit confused about it, though.

I can't think of a word ending in -ew that has a strong ee sound rather than the oh sound. Because English be crazy like that.

Oh yeah, I kept saying cemetery as cementery.

I thought Abaddon was "abba-don" rather than "Uh-baddin". Also I thought Armageddon was "ar-MEGA-Dee-on"

tbh I'm still not entirely sure whether or not "Ubisoft" is "you be soft" or "ooh be soft" because the company has used both pronunciations in different contexts but because the former is more natural that's how I say it

also until high school I thought "papyrus" was pronounced as written (i.e. "pap-ee-russ") and not "puh-PIE-ris"

edited 11th Nov '15 9:42:43 PM by Tre

After saying it out loud, my Humanities teacher kindly corrected me that the g in intaglio is silent.

I've been having the same problem with papyrus as Tre has until my friend was so kind to correct me.

Also I've always pronounced tyranny as tie-ranny as opposed to tee-ranny.

I also used to pronounce "tyranny" like that. I've always said "envelope" like [ON-vell-ohp] instead of [EHN-vell-ohp]. And I tend to pronounce "either" and "neither" as [EYE-thur] and [NYE-thur] instead of [EE-thur] and [NEE-thur].

I pronounce it like "tier-a-knee".

both of those pronunciations for "envelope" and "[n]either" are correct. So it's not like you were/are pronouncing them incorrectly.

edited 1st Dec '15 6:43:27 AM by death_vlk

When I was a kid, I accidentally pronounced "Tanzania" the same way you pronounce "Tasmania." ^_^;;

I am probably pronouncing a word in english bad since I learned it, but since I don't actually english that often I have not noticed it.

This doesn't happen often in spanish, cause (almost) every letter or combination of letters remain phonetically consistent across every word.

I used to pronounce the name Asuka a-ZOO-ca.

I've pronounced "wither" as wy-thur up until I was almost 14 and someone said something.

TIL that revenant is pronounced "RE-vuh-nant", not "REEV-nant".

Is "Tyranid" pronounced "tir-a-nid" or "teer-a-nid"?

I would say the former.

edited 29th Dec '15 9:31:16 AM by Kiefen

I could NOT read as a young one. There's Freglatar (Feraligatr), Jol-Chin (Jolteon [Goddamn my failure to realize the suffix "eon" at the end was meant to be pronounced like all the other Eeveelutions...]), Professor Brich (Birch), Keenay (Kine [Strange as it is, 4Kids taught me the right way to say it])...

Mine would be "comforTABLE".

There's also Comfortey.

I used to pronounce "Chimney" as "Chim-lee" In my defence, I most kids I knew at the time did too. I was about 8 when I realised my mistake and 11 when I started making myself say it right.

And Sam-Hane (honestly, they should spell his name Sawen now).