Mispronounced words

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I have embarrassingly only just realised that "ballache" isn't pronounced ballash... obviously I know the word ballache but I'd always pictured it in my mind as two words or at least hyphenated.

Are there any words that you mispronounce due to only having seen it written down and not said aloud?

When I was a little girl one of my favourite authors who wrote books about children and horses, was (can't-remember-who) Campbell, which I thought of as Camp Bell. I read my way through all her books in the library one summer.Must have been about 8 at the time.
How old was I when I realised that my Nanny Camble and the author shared the same surname?
Dunno, but certainly not that summer

Thirty years ago a teacher told me I was wrong for pronouncing Pasty as Pay-stee. It referred to the food item, a Pah-stee. But pasty and pasty are spelled the same so I don’t see how I was wrong? Pasty can indeed be correctly pronounced Pay-stee. Still bugs me, I never forgot it.

@pinktransit But truculent IS pronounced truck-yoo-lent??

Minutia was "minute tie" for ages
Placate was "plack ate"

And loads more that I picked up from reading and had never heard used.

I knew the written word segue; I knew the spoken word 'segway.' I was 30 before I realised they were the same word

The existence of the Segway scooter-thing didn’t fucking help, thank you very much whoever came up with that name.

Laconic = with a ck sound, not a s sound in the middle as someone 'hilariously' pointed out to me.

Until someone corrected me,i used to pronounce "Quayside" as "Quayside"

@Silkei you did what I did with @pinktransit's post!

I thought picturesque was picture-skwee for A LONG time ......

Placate was "plack ate"

That’s how I say it!?

How else would you say placate?

Maybe the PP means PLACK ate, rather than plack ATE?

We have had a lot of building work done over the years. I have often heard scaffolding referred to as scaffling. OH when young called the Grand Prix grand pricks! He wasn't joking. My parents' faces were

How else would you say placate?

I think this is an accent thing. I say pla-KATE with the stress in the second syllable, I assumed the previous poster was saying PLACK-at, or PLACK-et, or something.

Hermione was Her-mee-own until the films came out.
I dislike when people pronounce the j in jalapeño, the ll in paella and the z in chorizo using the English phonemes.

Also got given PE shorts in primary school by my gran. They said 'Phuket'. Oh, the fun we had...

Not quite a mispronounciation, but I had a boss who, when asking me to work overtime would always follow the request by saying "you shall be duly renumerated".

It really bothered me that she had to be all posh and fussy about her wording. I mean, what's wrong with just saying "I'll pay you" like a normal person? And I would be wincing and thinking "it's remunerated. If you're gonna be all lah-de-dah about it at least get the word right!"

I thought picturesque was picture-skwee for A LONG time ......

We still talk of picture-skew views in our family, which dates back to a childhood mispronunciation.

Thanks, elephant.

you shall be duly renumerated...it's remunerated

Wait, what?

Googles

I always thought it was renumeration!

Segue isn't pronounced Segway is it? I'd say seeg

I think the placate thing is possibly using the US pronunciation play-cate? Can't think of an alternate British pronunciation

There are so many words even here that I’ve never heard said aloud and would have no idea how to pronounce. For fear for making myself look like a nob, I avoid using big words!

As a child I once asked for some skweepees. I thought that was how you pronounced Schweppes. 😄

Hermione
Hearing ppl say falla-fell
Same as when some say 'pot' 'pourry'
Didn't know about segue being segway?!
Play-cate, or plah-CATE

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