Words that schools made you to pronounce differently to what they are

[Gkds]

At school, did you have words that if you said properly, you got told off?

For me it was Wednesday. We had to say wed nes day, not Wens-day.

This is not good.

We did too but I thought it was just sounding it out phonetically?

We pronounced it Wedensday!

I was in the "extra help" spelling group where we often broke down words into smaller words.
So (in my head but not out loud) I always think of Wednesday as Wed. Nes. Day. 😂

feb ru ary

Vet-ER-in-ary.

And one daft bint who insisted it's an not a before any word that starts with H, not just the ones that sound like they start with a vowel.

No, but I had one teacher who really went out of her way to pronounce the P in rasPberry.

My school was very anti us having the local accent, so we were endlessly told off for pronouncing things ‘incorrectly’.

I had a teacher who insisted we call it Break- Fast. As in brake fast.

I appreciate the spelling and history may have been on their side but I don't know what single person who doesn't pronounce it Brek-fast

But it is Wed-nes-day and vet-er-in-ary … at least in my accent. The “nes” and the “er” are softer, but they are still there.

My late, much missed, Dad always used to say brake-fast when reading me a bedtime story & I'd correct him saying "it's brek fast Daddy!".