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'

Seriously am I the only one to say Yosemite? Similar to the Arkansas/Arkansaw thing- I had no idea that yossy-might (how I thought it should be pronounced) and yo-sem-it-tee were the same place...

Clitoris. Until I met my now DH at 20, I always pronounced it 'Cly-toe-rus' (as in cry) I've always wondered why no previous BFs corrected me!

Roaring at ‘man-get-out’

Ethereal

For years I thought it was eth-er-reel, but no.

It's eth-thee-ree-aal

Soporific. I always say it as soforic. Can't help myself.

An old school friend's mum pronounced minestrone as mine-strone. I remember finding it very funny at 14 as she spoke rather posh.
My Nanna always said mush-er-room ?!? And my mum insists on calling a gilet a Gill-it.
Embarrassingly it takes me a few seconds before I can correctly remember that quinoa is not pronounced kwin-ow-ah

Years ago I rocked up to the leisure centre and asked to join the "pie-lates" class.

On the name thing, I used to love the babysitters club books as a kid. There was a character called Janine. In my head I always pronounced as "J-9".

@Doingtheboxerbeat

Hawick in the Scottish Borders is pronounced hoik!!!

WHAT!? What is WRONG with people??

I'm glad other people people share my distaste for bio-pick. We don't say bio- graffy, although I understand why.

I'm sure biog. used to be the standard contraction but maybe I'm wrong. Now it's all "link in bio"

Aunty-pody-ann

Antipodean

@LadyOfTheCanyon, when I lived in Edinburgh, I worked with a girl from Hawick who had the strongest, strangest accent ever and I thought that it was just how she was pronouncing it, but no.
Hoik .

Cetaceans- set-a-see-ans or set-ate-she-ans

But biopic is short for biographical picture. Bio- Pic. How else would you pronounce it, to rhyme with myopic? 

It's very short sighted of you not to know that.

@ShopTattsyrup Oh my goodness!!! My flabber is completely gasted Captain Mainwaring is Captain Mannering...well I never

@Greenvalleymama pronouncing "meme" as "meem" is saying it how it's spellt.

It's the split ee diagraph. Same pronunciation as the e-e in Steve, complete or serene.

The first time I saw the word spatial I pronounced it in my head as spat-ay-al. It was a long time before I heard it said out loud and realised how wrong i was!

I was about 20 when i realised chameleon, the word I'd seen written many times and read as cham-e-lon (with the ch like the ch in cheese), was the word chameleon I'd heard and called the animal (with correct pronunciation)

I said lingerie with a hard g for far too long.

Hyperbole I'd say mid twenties before i connected the dots on that one.

The first time I saw antique written down was in an Enid Blyton book when I was a kid. I pronounced it as antee-cue.

As a student, I told somebody that I had an interview in Chiz-wik (Chiswick). He was a Londoner and thought that was hilarious.

But Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell ARE brothers....

We have the bio-pic (adults) vs bi-op-ic (teens) disagreement in this house.

Also DD insists the Solero ice lolly is SO-le-roh and I say so-LAIR-oh.

@tattychicken

But Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell ARE brothers....

But they are English, so not pronounced as if French.

Here's a good one...did you know that 'Darjeeling ' tea is really pronounced 'datcherling'?

I had to read a passage out loud in a university tutorial. It quoted a Greek philosopher. I pronounced it "sewcrates" to rhyme with flow plates. The whole room fell about laughing before informing me it's pronounced "SOCK - ra - tees"

Oh and I also thought earl grey tea was pronounced errol grey because I'd heard a Scottish relative ask for it when I was a child. Again whilst at university and making a shopping list with my housemates I said "we need to get some errol grey tea" which was met with much hilarity. DP still says "do you want an errol?"now