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Hey Pandas, What’s A Word You’ve Mispronounced Your Whole Life Until Recently? (Closed)
Someone I knew thought "manslaughter" was "man's laughter." Let's see if anyone can top that.
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#1
Sriracha. Just recently realized there is two R letters there. Pronounced it siracha
Final score:
9points
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#2
Apparently when I say "herbal tea" a lot of people say it sounds like I say "horrible tea"!
My pet peeve though is when someone says "Pacific" when they mean "specific"!
Final score:
8points
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I just finished two weeks of work at a school holiday program. There was a girl called Amber there most days. Every time one of the other kids said her name I thought they were saying my name (Emma)!
#3
Psalm.
I’ve always seen it as puh slam. I only until recently learnt how it was pronounced when my mom was helping me with homework and she died laughing at how I said it, aha. Whoops.
Final score:
8points
#4
Delinquent, I pronounced De-le-quint. Herbs I'd pronounce the H because it just sounded right. Harrowing as ho-rrow-ing. Chrysanthemum as chrysanthenum. There's so much more but I don't remember.
Final score:
6points
Emmanuel Grey 1 year ago
Same. In Nigeria here we say DelinquEnt, not ont, and we do pronounce the H in almost everything
#5
Vanilla.
Am I the only one who pronounces it 'Vanella'?
One word it drives me batty to hear mispronounced is 'exception'. So many folks add the word Egg in there saying 'Egg'ception.
I'm sure there are many other words I've mispronounced my entire life besides vanilla. Van-ella or Van-illa ?
Final score:
6points
#6
rotisserie (idk how to spell it lol but its the chicken)
i pronounced the word in an unnecessarily fancy way cuz i thought that was how it was pronounced.
Final score:
5points
Headless Horseman 1 year ago
Fun fact that I didnt know for a long time: rotisserie refers to the style of cooking and yes you spelled it correctly! :) Lots of things can be cooked rotisserie style! When my grandparents made a rotisserie dinner I was expecting chicken but it was actually leg of lamb! 😅. Needless to say, I was disappointed, I love chicken.
#7
Minesweeper. I have no idea why but as a child when I started playing this game i would pronounce it as 'mines-weeper' and not 'mine-sweeper'. Even now I sometimes pronounce it as that in habit.
Final score:
5points
#8
Salmon. I said it like it's spelled. WHY IS THERE AN L IN SALMON ITS PRONOUNCES SAMON
Final score:
4points
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
In true Aussie style of altering certain vowels, we often say sam-in (or samn) :)
#9
I read the word epitome as “epi tome”. And calliope as “calli ope”!
Final score:
4points
#10
Persephone. I was pronouncing it as per-suh-phone instead of per-seh-fuh-nee for the longest time. I even had an obsession with Greek mythology for a while but I still pronounced it wrong lol
Final score:
4points
#11
Trypophobia. I called it trip-TO-phobia, with an extra T.
Final score:
3points
#12
I used to pronounce "squirrel" as "scorel," similar to "score" with an extra "l" at the end. I struggled with my "r" pronunciation in many words, sometimes causing confusion when I referred to a "shirt" as "s**t." So in some instances I would say " Do you like my new s**t? It's my favorite one!" 💀 It's quite amusing, but I've improved my "r" pronunciations since then.
Final score:
3points
#13
Sedative.
I found out that you do not pronounce the "a" like "Ay" and instead pronounce it like "aH".
Final score:
2points
#14
Cantaloupe. You are supposed to pronounce it like cantalope (similar to antelope) I think
Final score:
2points
#15
Hyperbole
Final score:
2points
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Soo many people in my class went 'ohh, that's how you say it' when we studied poetry in year 9!
#16
Well i keep pronouncing gif and trespassing wrong, even though I know how they’re supposed to go.
Final score:
1point
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