ever pronounce a word wrong for a long time

For me, a SBC, is Peh-neh-loh-peh.

Watching the latest episode of Pokémon: Twilight Wings taught me that Milotic's pronounced MY-lo-tick, not MEE-lo-tick.

I thought Jorge was just another way of saying George until I saw a video from Blame It On Jorge, where he says his name.

Well then, I'm even more wrong. I thought it was similar to "melodic."

I always thought 'reprise' was pronounced 'RE-prEYEse' and not 'ruh-prEASE'

I say uncouth wrong.

I don't care what people say it rhymes with mouth, not youth.

"Carbine".

It's "CAR-been", not "car-BINE".

up until fourth grade i pronounced 3 as a homophone of tree. then everyone laughed at me and i figured out that wasnt the case

I still cannot pronounce Worcestershire. (I'm from the US, go figure.)

Remember, it's "Wooster".

So apparently, the Japanese name "Watanabe" is pronounced "WAH-ta-NAH-bay?" I always thought it was "wa-TAH-na-bay."

For me, I thought continuity was "continue-in-ity" for some reason.

Edited by antenna_ears on Sep 13th 2020 at 3:49:24 AM

Epitome? Thought it was "eh-pee-toam" for a while until I was... Iunno, 17?

Is it "lasagne" or "lasagna"?

Clearly, it's "lasaga." :P

Seriously though, I've never heard anyone use "lasagne," only "lasagna."

Same, but even though I know the correct pronounciation, I still pronounce it ep-it-toem in my head sometimes.

I still can't say "caricature" correctly - I always end up saying "cariacture".

I don't know why, but the latter spelling feels more correct to me, even though I know it makes no sense.

It's more of a surname, but back then, I pronounced Fitzgerald as "fitz-ghe-rald".

I pronounced the g as a hard g instead of a soft one.

How? Possibly a Language Barrier, because in Indonesian, g usually, if not always, makes a hard g sound.

Funny thing, in Halo: Reach, it is pronounced like George. Weird.

This reminds me of a Running Gag in Club Dread - there's a character named Penelope, but another character reads it off her nametag as "PEEN-a-lohp", and consistently calls her that throughout the rest of the movie.

Edited by MikeK on Oct 25th 2020 at 1:49:33 AM

Most English words I've seen written often, but haven't heard said out loud. One example is "reagent", which I used to pronounce the same as "regent" and didn't pick on that I'm supposed to pronounce the "a" in the middle. I also thought that "continuity" was pronounced something like "conn-ti-new-ity". It doesn't help that English grammar has more exceptions than rules when it comes to spelling and pronunciation.

Are fictional things words? I've mispronounced a lot of them wrong but it's usually due to be being bilingual.

Like "Dedenne". It's spelled like "antenne" (which is antenna in French) but its pronounced "de-de-ne" in Japanese.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Oct 25th 2020 at 8:49:27 AM

Until recently, I always said Quebec as "key-yu-beck"

(it's actually "kweh-beck")

EDIT: My mom was wrong. According to my dad, it's actually "kuh-beck." But I swear, if this turns out wrong as well......

Edited by KingofNightmares on Nov 5th 2020 at 7:36:01 AM

my own name.

i forgot to pronounce the second Y in my name. for over a DECADE

I used to pronounce "inventory" as "in-VENT-uh-ree," not "IN-ven-tor-ree." To be honest, whenever I see it written down, I still pronounce it that way in my head