Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.
Worcestershire
And nearby Leominster
And Cirencester
and Towcester (“toaster”)
Map Men will explain a few more examples
I believe it’s pronounced “wstr”
Par-mee-zee-in
Oh crap, which universe are we in?
its aluminium
aluminum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium
tomato tomato lets call the whole thing off!
Chip-o-tot-el
Chip-ol-tay
Arist-ot-le
Ghoti
Ha I don’t even know what that is so I will never say it.
GH is pronounced F like in “enough”.
O is pronounced E like on “women”.
TI is pronounced SH like in “action”.
Therefore, ghoti is pronounced fish.
You CAN pronounce it fish, but you can also just simply not pronounce it.
GH is pronounced _ like in high.
O is pronounced _ like in jeopardy.
T is pronounced _ like in potpourri.
I is pronounced _ like in receive.
Therefore, ghoti is completely silent.
T is pronounced _ like in potpourri.
Kind of a cop-out, since that’s a straight-up French loanword. “Soften” would be better. Or “often,” if not for the fact that it’s so commonly mispronounced.
Fun fact: every letter except V can be pronounced silently.
It took me a long time before I found out how pilates was actually pronounced
Pontius Pilates
Nobody names their kid Pontius any more, have you observed that?
Banal sounds like canal
I don’t know if this is weird, but someone told me I say “ideology” weird because I say “id-ee-aa-luh-jee” instead of “ai-dee-aa-luh-jee”, and I still never changed the pronunciation anyway.
Panacea. I pronounced it incorrectly for a long time. Never knew because no one corrected me. Fortunately it didn’t come up too often.
And that is fine, when/if someone corrects you, you explain that you have never heard the word spoken, just read it.
Tri-ummm-vir-ate
You could record the times when you find out a new word that you’ve been pronouncing wrong. You should notice less and less new mispronounced words as your list of known mispronounced words gets longer and longer. If you graph the data out, you can extrapolate the curve out to infinity, and you can estimate how many total words you’re mispronouncing.
Ja-lap-e-no chips
The channel this video is from can be a useful resource.
Thanks for reminding me of these. A while back I met someone named Chateauneuf, and I tried to look up how to pronounce his name and found this very helpful answer.
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For the C/C++ nerds: Clang. There are still many people pronouncing it “Cee-lang”.
Wait but…but that means I’m supposed to pronounce it like the sound of slamming metal doors? but it’s for the C language!
am I seriously getting gif’d again?
Why is it pronounced gif when it should be pronounced jif? It’s so much clearer when you say jif! AND YES, I DO SAY GIRAFFICS! AAHHH!!
Sequel server grinds my gears.
