What did you suddenly realize you'd been pronouncing wrong?
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Re: What did you suddenly realize you'd been pronouncing wrong?
When I was a kid I misread "misled" as MY-zled.
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Re: What did you suddenly realize you'd been pronouncing wrong?
bedroom when i was a child was ‘bedgeroom’.
nuclear when i was embarrassingly much older was pronounced ‘nyookyoola(r)’. Still have to focus on that one.
nuclear when i was embarrassingly much older was pronounced ‘nyookyoola(r)’. Still have to focus on that one.
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Re: What did you suddenly realize you'd been pronouncing wrong?
PeterMollenburg wrote:nuclear when i was embarrassingly much older was pronounced ‘nyookyoola(r)’. Still have to focus on that one.
The last sequence (-clear) is not very common in English language, and many educated people (even up to US presidents Eisenhower and Bush) mispronounce it as if it was written "nucular" (since -cular is a much more common and familiar ending in English language: spectacular, molecular, particular, etc.).
P.S. Actually, there's even a wiki-page devoted to this particular mispronunciation.
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Re: What did you suddenly realize you'd been pronouncing wrong?
Laboratory. I thought I was doing it right, but then I saw all these great old English science fiction movies...
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