It’s okay guys. OP meant to write pronunciating.

Banal sounds like canal

I once spoke with a Southerner about favorite books. They recommended a series they called "The Will of Time".

Only later I found out they were talking about The Wheel of Time.

February

I pronounced puddle as poodle up into my thirtys. Maybe I didn't use it too often so it wasn't noticed. My second wife did. Absolutely scundered!

Thing is, language is constantly changing, so if enough people say it wrong, it makes it correct over time.

As an example, people have been using nauseous incorrectly for so long, that it's now correct again.

First time I saw giraffe in a book I thought it was pronounced Grr-Ah-Fee.

I pacifically told you!!!!

ITT: people who care about how you represent yourself are evil, apparently.

I suspect people got a little butt-hurt when they discover their shirt is a little stuffed.

Açaí

My wife pronounces ‘foliage’ like ‘foil-adj’.

I would say you're actually witnessing the very real phenomenon of language-drift. Languages evolve for a billion reasons, but there's no right or wrong state of language.

That's why we distinguish between language, dialect, idiolect, sociolect. Each bearer of language is also a producer of language. Their version is just theirs, in whatever many ways that makes that version unique.

(Check linguistics to better understand this process of language-drifting )

Ja-lap-e-no chips