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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ja-lap-e-no chips

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

My teacher told me that he'd fail me if I mispronounced "Data" as "Da ta" and not "Dait a". So I always mispronounce it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Supposably

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Though I want to know why Wednesday is pronounced "wendsday" or "wensday". The n is after the d!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

The d before n is inherited from the original name Wodans dag (like Tiu's dag, Thor's dag and Frey's dag inherited through the Saxons and Danes from pagan germanic gods)

The rest is just linguistic shift through the centuries of changing language. Like Dag -> Day while for example in German Dag -> Tag.

But the root of the word is still Wodan then old english Weoden then Wedn.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

My favorite example of this happened during a D&D game years ago in which the DM kept pronouncing the word portcullis as PORK-YOO-LISS.

To this day, the word causes the image of some sort of ancient Roman pig gladiator to appear unbidden in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

My wife says "wheelbarrel" and I giggle every time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The channel this video is from can be a useful resource.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for reminding me of these. A while back I met someone named Chateauneuf, and I tried to look up how to pronounce his name and found this very helpful answer.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Panacea. I pronounced it incorrectly for a long time. Never knew because no one corrected me. Fortunately it didn't come up too often.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Trough?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You can just look up words in the dictionary and look up the phonetic pronunciation key to refresh your memory. It pays to do this every once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We've probably all said a sentence that no other person in history has ever said.

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