Things that you thought were said differently

[BabyLlamaZen]

When I first read Harry Potter I thought it was 'hermy-own' - was gobsmacked when I heard how it was pronounced when the films started coming out! I also thought mirror of Erised was pronounced 'i-rye-sd'

Carousel... I was aware there was also a word pronounced carasel that meant the same thing, but I was embarrassingly old before I realised they were in fact the same word.

And yep, Arkansas as well

Draco was Dray Co until the HP films came out
I also had the Arkansas and Ar Kan Saw are two different places thing
When DS was little he asked me what kind of cake a stoma cake was. After much enquiry I realised he thought a stoma cake was what the Very Hungry Caterpillar rounded off his massive meal with. Rather than a stomach ache. That’s more mishearing than mispronouncing though!

Sorry, I mean I thought Draco was DraCo! Like dragon.

I saw the title of this thread and was about to write the same thing as you OP, I thought it was hermy-own and didn't believe my parents when they said I was wrong, I had to wait for the film to come out to prove it 😅

When I was a child I pronounced Penelope, a character in one of my story books, as Penny Lope. 🙃

merryhouse

Arkansas just pisses me off. There is no need for it. Why?

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Two of my favourite words are diaspora and detritus!

The Essex town of Harwich- isn't pronounced HAR-WICH like sandwich, its H-ARIDGE!!!

Leicester-isn't LI-CESTER, its LESTER!

Hyperbole is hy PER bollee

The other two are minutiae and Anapurna. 😁

Achipalego. Pretty sure I've spelt it wrong too. Never get it right.

Listening to an audio book today, a Jane Austen sequel type, quite nicely written but the person reading kept using wrong pronunciation, which really bugged me. Would be bad enough in a modern story but it really jarred - the words today were 'burgeoning' pron. burgoning, and 'incorrigible' pron. with a hard g sound. Don't they have some educated person check these things before recording, or check in a dictionary? It's a library audiobook, would be peeved if I'd paid for it.

I pronounced meme as it's spelled with a group of friends, who howled with laughter and informed me it's pronounced meem 🤷‍♀️ Who knew!

Glib.
I always say it wrong and can't remember which way it goes. Comes from having read so much, but not having heard people say it.

I'm always going to pronounce Sophocles like bifocals from now on- I love Pigeon Post!

I thought Harwich was pronounced Horrich?

Restaurant near my home called Villagio - my 4 year old insists on calling it Fellatios

@NotVeryOldForASweatyBird Mi-shap is wonderful!

I still don’t know how to say ‘gesture’
Is it ‘jest-ure’ or ‘guest-Ute’

In my 20s I thought the name Siobhan was pronounced Si-o-ban until I heard someone else say it!

*Meant to say-
jest-ure
Or
guest-ure

@SoftBlocks

Growing up in the North I used to pronounce the word ‘nougat’ as ‘nugget’. I‘ve had the piss taken out of me for doing so by some Southerners but I still think ‘noo-gah’ sounds weird.

We always used to buy 'nugget wafers' from the ice cream van ( northern town)

I’m from the south and pronounce it nugget to, I can remember how hilarious the person who corrected me thought it was!

Didn’t know that about segue or hyperbole either.....

It's Jess-chur lochjess

Thanks 7ofNine!

I always thought the word tenterhooks was tenderhooks.