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I still can't get my head around the fact Hegemony isn't pronounced like Ceremony, "Hedge-eh-moany".
I was horrified to find out it's "heg" like "leg" and "emony" like "lemony". Such an uncomfortable word to say, it still trips me up every time I say it.
Gotta get a petition running to change that, I refuse to believe it isn't 'Hedge' - 'emony'. Honestly that's disgusting.
You can tell someone grew up a rube because they say things like "You can tell someone grew up reading"
One of my best instances of this was when I pronounced “ricochet” as “rich-oh-chett” (rhymes with Boba Fett) as a kid. Never gonna live that one down.
Shillelagh embodies this for me. None of my guesses were even close.
Looks like Irish also has varying pronunciations with the same spelling, because the shillelagh -lagh sounds like lee, but in the name Shelagh (or Sheelagh) it's lah.
You can tell someone grew up reading amongst troglodytes this way.
No one only family read, I was forty years of age having a very Oscar from The Office discussion about ISIS and mispronounced “apostasy”. I still lie awake cringing over that sometimes.
Mispronouncing a word is not a bad thing. It means you read it somewhere before
Mispronouncing words isn’t really a big deal, just blame it on English being a tricky language (it is). Tbh no one would even remember such a thing, so I don’t recommend being sleepless about it :)
Mine was facade. I read it as fuh-cade and thought phissod was people putting up a false front.
I feel personally attacked.
It genuinely is hard to master more obscure English pronunciation because so much of it is made up of loan words from very different languages, but this will help as a general principle to follow.