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?

I'm Scottish and didnt know that Kirkcaldy and Kircoddy were the same place until I was in my twenties. Also Kirkcudbright and Kircoobree!!

I have also made the hyperbole mistake. My Mum corrected me but she was impressed I was attempting to use the word in the correct context!

Miss Cheevy-us bugs me too. It's mischievous (mis-chiv-us).
Now considered acceptable but not by me - Di-sect (Dissect - nobody says, Di-sertation for dissertation, or di-solve for dissolve)
and newkiller for nuclear.

Prostrate, instead of prostate (as in prostate cancer). I hear this so often.
I was shocked listening to children being read to, and acacia was pronounced as akka seeya. This was a primary school teacher!
Heinous and grievous pronounced with an extra 'i', so it becomes heen i ous and greev i ous.

If I can divert into words that I "amusingly" pronounce wrongly intentionally, there's Penelope to rhyme with antelope. Sorry BFF.

Same with Persephone.

My sister once said Romanesque as rom-ann-es-cue. I still make fun of her about it (in a nice way)

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER - I love your "fuck- see-ya" fairies

Inchoate.

Not that I've ever had reason to say it.

Breg-sit.

My head associates it with brisket when it's said in that way and consequently I have very odd images of beef

'Haitch ' 😡

Such a shame that being an advanced early reader can put one at such disadvantage!

Haitch? I am truly baffled by just the how and why of this ever happening!? If you're English that is.

@Andylion EVERY TIME I see that word on my kindle I use the included dictionary to a) find out the meaning and b) work our the pronunciation.

So I’d be grateful if you could put me out of my misery!

Thee-ATE-er instead of Thee-ut-ur (theatre)
Shopping in B&N's (B&M)
Getting 'drownded' in the rain.
Sekketry (secretary)

But while we're on the subject... schedule - shed-ule, or sked-ule?

Schedule: 'shedule' is the British prononciation while 'skedule' is North American.

Thank you. I tend to avoid using the word where I can

A man was mansplaning to his wife in the tube about the route they were taking. He told her they needed to get off at Borough. But he pronounced it Bu-ruff.

Watching with interest. I frequently say things wrong and my DH correcting me

Littlemeithslyn Haitch drives me nuts too, probably because I first heard it from a exBF who thought he was being posh (while ridiculing me on a regular basis from apparently being 'posher' than him), dickhead.

Cuttle-ree instead of cutlery irritates as well.

A friend messaged me the other day saying he hoped I'd "got some rest-bite".

I remain disorientated over whether I should in fact be disoriented. And I tell my kids they are being mis-cheevy-us and am trying to teach my brain to use mis-chee-vus instead.

Diana, from the internet, not my memory:

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.
"a still inchoate democracy"

The pronunciation, below, but with an American accent. I'm Canadian so it works for me,

DP and I always call the plant Heuchera Hyoocheera but on Gardeners' Question Time yesterday someone kept saying Hyookera with the accent on the first syllable.

Chorizo: I notice lots of people say choritzo as though it's Italian, rather than (Spanish pronunciation) choreetho.

@iveneversaidanything - I'm from Kent too - an Aussie friend was very amused by Wrotham 

@redyawn -skellington makes me want to hurt someone lol 😆

Also BLOODY LICKLE who says lickle ffs!!!! Grown adult people ... I could weep if it didn't make me cringe so much

@Bloodybridget the telly people are wrong too, it’s hoy-ker-a after Johann Heinrich von Heucher.

I thought meme was pronounced like meh mey not meem.

I knew a girl who thought couture was pronounced coo-chure. We only found out after she went to try wedding dresses on at a place called 'house of coo-chure'.

I always thought princess Eugenie was pronounced youjeany it's not, it said like youjuhknee.