I used to think Hyperbole was pronounced Hi-per-bowl

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As self-professed pedants do you have any equally embarrassing admissions?

Cholmondeley

Sorry, I think I should have typed anthroposophy, if any Steiner experts are around.

See, BM. Greek.

Rafe Vaughan Williams instead of Ralph

I even did Greek.
And Latin

Exactly activate. And all the others like that.

Oh go on then, I'll list them

Marjoribanks
Cholmondeley
Belvoir
Featherstonehaugh
etc

what's escatology and do you say escapology by mistae?

oh gawd

I only know Chumley

what are the others?
Marjoribanks
Cholmondeley
Belvoir
Featherstonehaugh

I think

Marchbanks
Beaver
Fanshawe

I know how to pronoune Hyperbole but I ALWAYS have to remind myself and say it my head a few times to be sure.

Same with Halcyon

I used to love all those Enid Blyton books but had no idea how to say Gwendoline.

I read the Beano and Gnasher was a mystery and I thought a shiner was a shin a.

In the 80s I used to order Dos Equis in my north london accent and some twat of a waiter looked at me down his nose and said 'do you mean Do os Ek ISSSS?'

wanker.

I thought hyperbola was hyper-bowler. My dad (maths teacher and cricket fan) felt England could do with some of them .

I remember getting horizon wrong (horri-zon) in a reading test at school and being very annoyed when my mum
or dad used the word later that evening.

I still feel Phoebe should be Pho-ebe. My mum finds this funny .

Until I was about 16 I thought that Monopoly was called Mono-Poly, sodding family never corrected me

I shared teaching practise with a lovely chap who read out to a class of haughty Yr 11s that a child found his "Berry-boned" birthday presents (beribboned)during a GCSE English Lit lesson (from a story in the old AQA Anthology)

SAID- I used to read Albeit as all bite.
Even now I've known for years I still read it as that out of habit

This aitch/haitch superiority thing annoys me a bit. Entire swathes of the country say haitch, including a lot of Wales. They can't all be terrible ill educated plebs, can they?

you must have been surprised to see a dapper Belgian detective rather that a salty buccaneer BeerTrix

Anxiety - Anx-ity. I have to mentally correct myself every time I read it.

anxiety angshitty

and
melancholy mell lank oli

both read out loud in class at about the age of 12, mortifying and I still remember the laughter all too well.

but I am not a pedant!

Penelope - ending as in envelope anyone?

and an ex once called me 'nave' instead of naive - yes I was naive for thinking he was cleverer than me!