Anyone else know they pronounce certain words wrong but just can’t change?

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Lighthearted but I know I say certain words wrong but the ‘correct’ way just does not sound/feel right in my mouth to say lol

a few examples
-expresso…I know there’s no X but I just can’t say it espresso as it sounds wrong to me.
-words like diagnoses/crises…I know that’s how the plural is said but in my head it should be crisises, diagnosises. To be fair I avoid saying those ones because I know how ridiculous it is saying it wrong in my profession.

im sure there’s more but that’s the main 2 I can think of.

anyone else?

I think many of us share the surprise of when we actually heard cotoneaster said out loud. I also have a problem with heuchera - largely because I can't be bothered to look up how it is actually prounounced. I do like a heuchera and when recommending them I just provide the two alternative pronunciations I have come up.

Really? I'd say 90% of people say aitch where I am from.

Oh, and I can't say catastrophise to save my life. And it's such a great word.

I haven’t ever met anyone in real life that says Haitch! It’s Aitch at school here.

@Berlinlover thank you.
Six th and not sik th
Thought I'd cracked it. Now I can't do it without the gap in it!

Similarly, I fluctuate between tragedy and tradegy... I know the second version is the incorrect way, but it's like when I'm given a multiple choice set of answers, they all tend to look "right".

@ToyFace · Today 22:20

Again I learnt in school that the letter h is pronounced as aitch but honestly I have never heard a single person in the uk say aitch. It's always haitch. Even my kids say haitch and they learnt it in school here. I thought I was wrong to say aitch.

Are you from a strong cockney part of London?

Yes I say wed-ins-day. That’s how it says by everyone one here. Always with the first D

Interesting.. I have just realised I’m the opposite.. second-arie school but second-ree colours 🤔

I have a colleague who says pacific instead of specific, it drives me crazy!

I'll raise you aripiprazole !

I know there are different ways to stress " controversy" and i have no idea what it's supposed to be but I think I stress the second syllable.

OMG! That's a funny one!

Diphenhydramine is a good one too.

OK are you from the North west because same

I've heard newsreaders say issue something like iss-uu I say ish-oo. Also for thesaurus I say thea-saurus which I've only learned recently is wrong it's the-saurus

I say sixth. I've never noticed others saying sikth but I don't know if it's my lack of observation or if it's not done here (Aussie).

One word I've noticed others often mispronounce is anaesthetist. Usually they leave out the first s.

Like PP I struggle with remuneration. I also used to read it as "The Voyage of the Dawn Trader" as a child.

One of my students used to always eat cubumber at school which I thought was cute.

I was going to say this!

Words like "casual" too. I know it should be caz-u-al but my mouth says ca-shul and ca-shully.

Benevolent.

It always come out benelovent. Just sounds better to me.

I would pronounce that ex/stror-din/airy
I think sometimes it does come down to area and dialect, but I do say a few things differently to others around me, and I know this because I often get ribbed about it. For example, I say tissue like tiss/you but everyone else says tish/u. I also pronounce soup like sooooop, which my husband thinks is funny!

Sixth = siksth.

I'd never pronounce it sikth.

Wednesday = wedensday

I'm from the North East and I say cuttle-ree too!

I've heard both "mee graine" and
"my graine", from sufferers and various neurologist's.

Teeth on edge for me:
My pain has got worser... even when I was a kid in school, it really irritated me.

Bon appetite, I was taught NOT to pronounce the last "t"
Pot pourri, again, I hear it pronounced with the "t", dog it sounds like pot as in flowerpot eg.

I absolutely hate having to pronounce jewellery... I sound so awkward.

I find I pronounce February correctly and don't have to concentrate, but as others have said, Wednesday would sound SO weird if said as it's spelled.

Leicester Lie ces tur but we say Lester.
Same with Bicester.

Don't get me started with Sian and Sean, I'm so bloody inexperienced at those kind of names, I'll 99/100 get it wrong.

You know this subject is gonna bug me all night, instead of relaxing into sleep.

I would probably say Tarzan your way, well definitely with the emphasis on the first 'Tar' bit. Pretty sure that's been the normal UK pronunciation for ages, so not sure where your kids are getting their way to say it from?

I wonder if this could be connected, but I've noticed that my niece pronounces Amazon (the company) as Ama-ZON.,whereas I've always said AM-azun, and I thought that was usual. Same with the river, rainforest, etc.

I feel like my niece has somehow picked up on what is probably the American pronunciation, maybe from ads etc? And maybe your kids have done the same with the name Tarzan?

ExBestFriend was a personal trainer and used to say "skelington" (for skeleton). I couldn't bring myself to correct her.