It's a weird moment when you realize a word isn't pronounced the way you always thought it was, amirite?

I had been pronouncing the word 'epitome' wrong for six years. I was so embarrassed when I found out.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My biggest one was irrevocably. That was a true aha moment.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Acoustic and atheist. I would say atheist as "ah-thee-ist." But, I still accidentally say acoustic as "a-cost-ic" sometimes.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I said "albeit" as ul-beet instead of all-bee-it until about seven months ago.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought it was "all bate" for the longest time. I feel your pain.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Apparently, I had been saying 'albeit' wrong too. I thought it was said like 'al-bite.'

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I guess I was saying it wrong too. Thought it was al-bay. Not sure why I assumed the t was silent.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Allegory. I've always pronounced "ah-LEG-ory"

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I pronounced caterpillar "callipitar" until seventh grade.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I pronounced helicopter as "hekilobber" until I was 9.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Thats adorable!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Facade, asylum,and prologue. I would say fuh-sade, ah-soo-lum, and prol-jew

by Anonymous 11 years ago

asylum, malignant, naive, polish (as in nail polish) Niall, Louis....

by Anonymous 11 years ago

So bad at pronunciation. Plethora, permanent, geronimo, renege, accompaniment, solider, iron, and pastor, among other words...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How did you say them?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Ple-THOR-a, for geronimo and permanent I switch around the m's and n's when I say them (I still haven't corrected those), re-nedge like it rhymes with hedge, a- come-PAN-i-ment, solider like shoulder, i-ren, and pasture.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I used to pronounce meme like meme, but now I pronounce it meme.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I have a friend that pronounces it "mem" (like "member") and another that pronounces it "mi-mi". I corrected the second one because I was closer to her but I didn't have the heart to correct the first and it's close enough.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How is it pronounced?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm not sure how to explain it. More like "meem", I guess? It rhymes with "beam".

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm really surprised I've been pronouncing it correctly!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well, it does come from the French word, which IS pronounced "mem" so I can see how your friend would think that.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That makes sense, her step-dad is French.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I always thought plaid was pronounced like played rather than plad :(

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's not "played"???

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Thesis. Still gets me to this day..curse you English high school essays!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I pronounced mischievous wrong for the longest time.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Wow, reading these comments, I've realized that I probably pronounce 90% of things wrong... The most embarrassing one for me was archive, I pronounced it like are-cheev instead of ar-kayv

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Debris.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I used to say breakfast like bref-crist until probably sixth grade haha.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i've always pronounced permanent as pernament...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought Levi's was "Lev-vees" not "leave-vise" I also though pedo was peedo. epitome as ep-pie-tome...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I still don't know how to pronounce acai.

by Anonymous 11 years ago