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One dnd session, the dm described the room as having flaming braziers. He pronounced them as "brassieres."

We never let him forget.

On the one hand ... “Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

On the other hand.. what else are friends there for?

My friend once put the emphasis on the first syllable of pedantic, and correcting him was probably the single greatest joy I’ve ever felt

My friend wants to know how you actually pronounce “fugue”. What a dumb friend, right?

I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.

A dear friend once said, "Let's go to the mall and get some of those Bavarian peck-ins

Chris, if you're reading this, I'm still loling, bro. 25 years, still loling.

At church, they read the part where Jesus heals the leapers.

"Never take your friends for granite."

"It's alright, Alex. I know you're not made of stone."

At university a college pronounced 'machine' a bit like 'ma-shayna' (almost a bit Slavic? but totally on accident whatever it was). I loved it so much it stuck with me all these years, basically became headcanon.

Phonetic transcription exists for a reason. The comments here are full of "this is pronounced as this". Which isn't very helpful.

We’ll always have the time we heard a podcaster pronounce the name of the town “Stroke-on-Tent”.

swim away fugu fish, swim away!

Omg it's from 2008. Half my lifetime ago.

My father had a terrific sense of humour and would deliberately mispronounce certain words to wind up his fancy-pants daughters. "Patio" became "pay-tio", that kind of thing. But one word in particular has entered the family lexicon: "gnome", pronounced "ganOmee". Not meaning a garden ornament, but a young man of dubious moral/intellectual qualities. Our boyfriends were almost always declared gnomes.

I don’t overreact to things I can tell are regional dialects and whatnot. But I recently watched a movie review where the guy pronounced linear as “li-nEAR” and I was the personification of the double take white guy meme. Never heard that one before. And he kept using it throughout, so, somehow, this 30ish year old man has never been corrected. I think everyone that knows him might be playing a cruel joke.

My mind still reads it 'foogoo'. Just because I correct it in speech doesn't mean my mind knows and yearns for a better way.

Pretty mainstream. When I was a kid most people struggled to learn how to laugh these things off. These days if you speak on any platform it's a good idea to have some mispronunciations because it catches peoples attention. Even if it's the only thing they'll talk about as long as you're good natured about it you've made progress.

Fyoog is just so wrong

Just looking at the word I would definetly read ir as fugu.

Looking at the Wikipedia article, it says it's pronounced fjug. Like what happened to the u and e.

I misdispronounciate words as a hobby.

What else are friends for!