I have a confession to make. Please don't think less of me.

[Orrex]

In the summer of 1992, I pronounced "cacophony" as "KACK-o-fon-ee."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I've got one:

Some time in about 1958 I pronounced "ogre" as "orge." And a neighbor always pronounced "anemone" as "anna-moan."

[Orrex]

3. My elementary school music teacher pronounced "orge" as "OH-gree"

Even at the tender age of eleven, I knew that she was wrong (thank you Gary Gygax!) but I didn't have the nerve to tell her.

Also, I have a friend who's a doctoral candidate, and for at least 20 years he's pronounced "Parthenon" as "Panthenon."

[Tobin S.]

2. What? You mean that's not how you pronounce it?

Is it CAH-CAH-fone-ee? COCK-o-phony?

[Kali]

4. you dirty lowdown scumbag FREEPER!

alerting on your ass now, troll
what kind of pizza do you want?

[Orrex]

5. Well, I suppose I had that coming.

It was a good run while it lasted.


Pepperoni/anchovy is good. And I wouldn't object to some red onions, either.

[Skittles]

7. LET'S KICK SOME ORREX ASS, KALI

EGREGIOUS OFFENSE

[dalaigh lllama]

6. I never knew how to say "debacle"

until Jean-Luc Picard had one on Star Trek. Sadly, I've been able to use the word quite often these past ten years.

[Duer 157099]

8. Whilst playing Trivial Pursuit one day, a friend came across the word

"Chihuahua" and pronounced it:

Chee-hoo-ah-hoo-ah

None of us could figure out what in the world that meant, until she spelled it out for us.

It was so hilarious that lo these many decades later I still remember it.

[MilesColtrane]

9. I couldn't possibly think less of you.

[Brickbat]

10. My boss at my last job pronounced poignant "POYG-nant." And she was an English teacher

before her job was to make my job hell.

I mispronounce quite a few words. I was always told it comes from reading "too much."

[PassingFair]

12. It's not from "reading too much".

It's from not listening enough.

:hide:

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Dude. I couldn't possibly think less of you than I already do.

[zanana1]

13. You're dead to me.

Nah.:hug:

[canoeist52]

14. I had a friend who thought the "Soo" and the Sioux ("Soyox")

were two different tribes until he was reading aloud at school one day and was corrected.

[woo me with science]

15. LOL I remember as a child reading novels with the names, "Phoebe" and "Zoe,"

I thought they were pronounced "FOE-ebb" and "Zoh" until I was a young adult.

I also got laughed at in home ec. for saying the spaghetti needed "OAR-a-GONE-no.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Speaking of oregano, most of the country can't say the name of the state of Oregon.

They say "Ore-a-gone" instead of "Ore-uh-ghin."

[TZ]

16. I mispronounced facade for years

as Fa CADE.... I only ever saw the word in books before I learned

[woo me with science]

17. Also, I will never forget on the very first day of graduate school,

some poor guy in our class proclaimed that a certain book was the "EPI-TOME" (rhyming with home) of bad science.

I felt so bad for him.

[edbermac]

18. When I was a lad I used to mispronounce Grand Prix.

:blush:

[jobycom]

19. I don't think less of you. That would take way more thought than I spend on you.

:P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

21. for once

you and I are in violent agreement.

[mnhtnbb]

20. Hubby has always taken great delight in mispronouncing

connoiseur as Kon-OY-Zer. (He hated being required to take French in college for the pre-med language
requirement which wouldn't accept Spanish)

Our youngest son came home from high school one day --he had pronounced the word in English (AP Honors)
class the way his father did-- and was very embarrassed to be corrected.

I had told hubby, for years, to quit mispronouncing the word. Finally, he did.

[Kali]

23. Amy Goodman finally taught me how to pronounce

the word I was pronouncing HEJ-money.

[Arugula Latte]

24. I knew someone who said "ep-i-TOME" instead of "epih-toe-me"

Wasn't me. :)

[Kaleva]

25. I used to pronounce "towel" as "toll".

[dropkickpa]

26. You are dead to me

DEAD!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

27. In 1992 I supported Pat Buchanan for President

By the end of the year I was a passionate supporter of the Clinton-Gore ticket and on my way to becoming a liberal Democrat

That was a strange year. It's hard to remember a time when I was a conservative Republican but apparently I was:wtf: