To not realise I was saying this wrong...

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Stopped on the street today by a lady looking for a shop. She asked for the nearest “Shrov-Ski”.
Explained further that it’s a jewellery shop. I eventually cottoned on that she meant “Swaa-Rov-Ski”
Bit like “hyper-bole” with me as well... (until I heard it said on the News!) And the name “Beat-Rice”.

As a child I thought Hermione was pronounced Her Me Own until I watched the films. I thought it was a very odd name in the books, even by HP standards 😄

The first time I used the word 'epitome' out loud, I felt very smug and posh for about a second until I was laughed at. I was pronouncing it epi-tome (last syllable rhyming with home).

Also my mind was blown when I found out fajitas doesn't have a J sound in it but is a H sound instead. I think I was about 13. My mum (from India) had been pronouncing it wrong all along and when I said it at a friend's house she thought I was deliberately pronouncing it wrong to be funny (as that's something we often did as like a silly inside joke thing). I never told her that's genuinely how I thought it was pronounced!

I would have said Percyphone.

Epitome. I know how to say it but in my head it’s ep e tome (to rhyme with home)
paradigm, again I know how it’s pronounced but think para di gym

Place names are the worst like
Tintinhull
Hatch Beauchamp
Nempnett Thrubwell
Chideock

My French colleague called his daughter Penelope, and pronounced it 'penny-lope'' - I presumed it's the French pronunciation, or was he just wrong?

It was only recently I discovered that segue didn't rhyme with league.

I also have no idea if I learnt that or learned it.

What is this about IKEA? Ear sound at the end?
I though it was I-key-a

That said, I do get to meet a lot of the current senior peeps if they come visit as that is basically my job.

Bruschetta is Bru-sket-a not Bru-shet-ta but everyone seems to pronounce it Bru-shet-ta (apart from Italians![.

We're an ik-kay-ya family because we live in a French speaking country but now two of my dcs are living in the UK and they have switched to E-eye-kee-a. But did I understand correctly that that's not how they say in the UK ad? Third DC is living in Sweden with Swedish girlfriend so we bow to her better judgment on all things Ikea.

😂😂 Makes me think of a Hyacinth Bucket-type colleague of my DM who reportedly bragged about the parrkay (parquet) flooring in the hall of her new house in Ponj (Penge).

not really it is because Moet is a dutch word and you pronounce the last T in dutch words

Penny lop is the French pronunciation of Penelope. I think it's quite charming.

I still don’t know of that building is

Flat-eye-on

or

flatty-ron

When reading a book as a teenager, I read the name Dylan as dye-lan.

I also live in a country where they pronounce it "ee-kay-ah", though where I'm from, it's "eye-key-ah". See also "leedle" not "liddle"

I used to argue with my cousin, who insisted it was "pree-mark", when I said "pry-mark". Obviously, I'm right!

My read in a book but never heard spoken name was Aynes. Or Agnes as I now know it to be.

I am still not sure of Perdita ? Purrdita, or Pudita?

I always ask for Bru-sket-a only to be 'corrected' by waitpersons when they repeat my order back to me. 😉

Likewise, I always say Ick-E-a because that's how Laurence Llewelyn Bowen pronounces it. No idea where others are getting the 'r' they are tagging onto the end??

I wonder if the extra 'r' is similar to the mispronouncing of the word drawing as drawRing by some people?

Hyperbole - it is said 'hi-per-bo-lee' isn't it? Until recently, I thought it was 'hyper-bowl'.

I read a great quote once : 'Never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learnt that word from reading.'

Me too, I think it was a George Orwell book.

sauvignon I pronounce so-vin-yon

However I am still teased about the fact I read “Rugrats” as “roo-grats” and I had terrible issues with the word “misled”

Facade is a word I learned from reading it. Mispronounced it for years. Many, many years!!

I thought it was faKaid, rather than faSSaad.

Hey-ho, every day's a school day.

In Swedish the letter I is pronounced ee, the E as ay = kay, and the a as ah.
Put together it's ee-kay-ah
In English the letter I is pronoucned eye, the E is ee = kee, and the a as uh.
Put together it's eye-kee-uh

I first came across the store when I was living in Germany, where they say it like they do in Sweden. I sounded like a bit of a wanker saying it as ee-kay-ah when I moved back to the UK - like I was trying to be cocky.

I knew “ lox-ee-tan” but only because I once googled it after an argument with friends over the correct way to say it (we were all wrong!)
I’ve also made the Percy-phone/ Persephone mistake. When I was younger I thought Phoebe was “pee-oh-bee” and Geoff was “gee-off” with a hard G.
In my teenage mind I wanted to make up for my mispronunciations so over corrected and for ages I read (and said aloud ) the word “albeit” as “all-bay”- It blew my mind when I finally realised it was actually ‘all be it’. To be honest it still does!

I'm always a bit surprised when I hear people pronounce 'assume' as 'ashoom'. I've never considered saying it that way.

Miele, I say Mee-lee or Me-ell interchangeably, still not sure which is correct. Probably Mee-lee but I prefer saying Me-ell.

I though Aloysius (a mysterious foreign child in an Enid Blyton book) was pronounced Al-oy-see-us, emphasis on the oy, as a child only to find out as an adult that it was Al-oh-ish-us.

Similarly on holiday listening to an Italian mama shouting her son's name over and over and over again and realising that Giacomo (Gee-a-como) is actually Jackamo.

Also, the word negotiate - do you say Ne-goh-shee-ate or Ne-goh-see-ate? I say it the first way and it grates to hear it said the second way. Sounds pretentious to my ears.