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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Sriracha. Just recently realized there is two R letters there. Pronounced it siracha

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Mis Stake she/her 🇫🇮🇬🇧

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FoxFriend (they/them) 1 year ago

I... just realized this.

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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"!

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Satirecatsaysno

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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)!

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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.

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•Mailbox•

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UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her) 1 year ago

Wait how is it actually pronounced

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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.

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PickleDragon she/her

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Emmanuel Grey 1 year ago

Same. In Nigeria here we say DelinquEnt, not ont, and we do pronounce the H in almost everything

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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 ?

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Vonny

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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.

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shanila.pheonix_

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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.

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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.

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Sanjneel

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Salmon. I said it like it's spelled. WHY IS THERE AN L IN SALMON ITS PRONOUNCES SAMON

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TheElementalGod️️ (He/him)

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

In true Aussie style of altering certain vowels, we often say sam-in (or samn) :)

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UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her) 1 year ago

I say sal-min

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Emmanuel Grey 1 year ago

Same

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I read the word epitome as “epi tome”. And calliope as “calli ope”!

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Marlene Atwell

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Emmanuel Grey 1 year ago

Omg same 😂

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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

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_physically_insane_(he/they/any)

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Huddo's sister 1 year ago

My sister thought they were two separate names!

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Trypophobia. I called it trip-TO-phobia, with an extra T.

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Normal Girl

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Emmanuel Grey 1 year ago

A lot of people do for some reason...

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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.

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