Have I been saying this word wrong my whole life?!

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Just heard the word "romanticised" pronounced with a hard c. Is that how it's said?!

It's sort of in the middle in Italian though

Laaaa-tay not Law-tay.

@GetWhatYouWant , I wouldn't get wound up by something like them stumbling over Rhosllannerchrugog or something, but 'Plide Coomry' every sodding time. There's no W in it.

They also tend to say Senedd as Senyth or Sen-eth.
Ugh!

Laa-teh not Lart-ay

Accident still usually axident. What about accidental?

Is it an assident when an eejit driver dings your car?

Who else is thinking of that TV nanny and her ‘asseptable’? 😱

Yep. Like this.

That is admirable. (And funny.😀)

I've always thought whooping cough was pronounced with a silent 'w' but then I heard a young person the other day pronounce it as wooping cough with a silent 'h'.

I've been saying it with a w and silent h, but have been hearing medical staff say it with a silent w!

I think it should be pronounced with a soft wh- ... surely it's meant to be onomatopoeic and 'hooping' doesn't work for that.

My theory - having seen a few similar videos on Instagram - is that they mispronounce words like this on purpose in the vein of going viral/to appease the algorithm gods because its likely they’ll get 100s of people commenting & correcting (people can’t help themselves!)

There are some exceptions - like Circe is ker-kee and Cerberus is Ker-buh-rus as they are Greek names - but it's just basic phonics to my mind, c or g followed by e, i or y makes it a soft letter sound.

That's a bit depressing on the part of the guy.

One that had me doubting myself is "cognizant".

I would say it like COG-ni-zint (ni like nick) but I have heard two different people - unrelated, senior managers at two different workplaces - pronounce it cog-NYE-zint (like Bill Nye the Science Guy).

The first time was jarring, the second time made me wonder if I'm wrong 😅

I pronounce it your way, but I use the BrE spelling ‘cognisant’. Your pronunciation is logical if you consider other etymologically related words - cognitive, cognition, etc.

Thank you all. I was chatting to a livery yard owner yesterday and he pronounced the live to rhyme with thrive. Clearly just him then!

This. You say both the w and h but sort of at the same time.

I'd say Sir-see. Kyrkee if Greek
Cerberus - sirbirus

Who was that aimed at ?

No shame for the OP

Is eccentric exentric or essentric?

It's exentric if you're talking about a person, but some fitness instructors seem to say e-sentric if they're talking about the opposite of concentric exercises.

What about harbinger? Hard g or soft? 🤔

Well, I always used to sing harbinger like ginger and nobody ever corrected me...

singer, finger, ginger - which is it?

Harbinger is a soft ‘g’.

I've only ever heard it said as harbinger.

HAR-binj-er. Autocorrect fail on pp.