Thanks to Hugo's House of Horrors, a childhood of peh-nuh-lope for Penelope
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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I student read that book but the word epitome got me the same way. "Ep-i-tome", right?
I was definitely guilty of that as well. Had a friends mom correct me back in middle school and I remember it more than 20 years later.
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Reading comments here: TIL
I call it being bookish, pronounced "bawkish"
Instance of this I remember, was genre. I had seen the word, knew what it meant, 0 clue how to say it. At work one day in my teen days and someone asks "What kind of genres do you like" (in context, we were talking about video games). I clearly had a confused look on my face and the guy that asked me that switched to insulting me for not knowing a word. It took me maybe 30 seconds to figure out the word he said and the word I knew were the same thing, but apparently that was "too long".