What words have you realized you've been mispronouncing?

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A friend told me she got her car valetted recently, pronounced phonetically, to rhyme with malleted. I went to great pains to explain to her (english is not her first language) that valet is a french word, pronounced valay. I obviously didn't want her to look stupid....

To my absolute HORROR it is an english word, pronounced exactly as written. I feel as if I'm questioning part of my own identity, I have been going over the words that I use in everyday life that I was brought up believing were french We always had a pouffay in our living room and I remember feeling a tad smug as a teen when a friend came over and called it a poof that I knew the correct way to say it
In my defence I have realized of late thanks to the threads here that DM obviously was LMC aspirational and I have borne the consequences. (This is light hearted, obviously)

Hyperbole.

I pronounced it 'Hyper - bowl' until DH cracked up and explained it was pronounced 'High-per-bo-lee'

I can't say ”pimento” I invariably say ”pim-ee-ento” instead. It's such a problem when in Waitrose!

Derelict. I can't help pronouncing it derilEct. And sellotape, I say sAllotape. I know both are incorrect and I'm a complete pedant about spelling and grammar but I have to really try not to mispronounce these words!

Not one I get wrong, but just so you know Möet (the champagne) is pronounced mo-ett. Not mo-ay.

I say schedule "wrong". The word was never part of my lexicon growing up (timetable was instead). First used schedule when working in the US, hence with the American pronunciation. Not going to change as it's not actually wrong and it only upsets the uptight few.

I recall a friend in school mocking me for saying "neck-lace" instead of "neck-luss". I must have been using my mother's pronunciation but I've not recalled that since - I shall have to call her now as try get her to say ths word and check!!

Well according to ds 5 we ate Brusselled sprouts so that's me been wrong all these years!!

Dh has a prostate exam appointment coming up although he has called it his prostrate for years.

I've been pronouncing hyperbole wrong then!

And reading something on line about the 'Marchioness of Cholmondeley' No idea that Cholmondeley was pronounced 'chumley' until I read it out to relatives

I should stick to simple words

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