[ SECRET POST #4057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4057 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

That's a really common thing among people who've built up their vocabulary mostly through reading. It's totally happened to me, too. *fist bump of solidarity*

[(Anonymous)]

It's happened to me so many times as well. You're definitely not alone, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

Happened to me as well. Words with silent letters (like "island") were the worst for me.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Me too!

[(Anonymous)]

I have had this problem with so many words, because I grew up in a rural area with few people and did a lot of reading. You are not alone, OP!

[lauramcewan]

It may have been this book, or perhaps Little Town, where I encountered the phrase "lunatic fringe", regarding Laura curling her bangs, essentially. I pronounced it, "loo-NAT-ic", having no idea.

[supermanda]

+1 and tbh learning new words through reading is a truly beautiful thing

[(Anonymous)]

For a while as a kid, I thought rendezvous as it's spelled and rendezvous as it's pronounced were two different words with a similar meaning, and for some reason one was just a lot more common in speech and the other in text.

[(Anonymous)]

I knew beau contextually because I had a grandmother who would use the word.

For me, I pronounced denouement as "de-no-ment" until last year (and I'm almost 40). Also, macabre was "mack-a-ber" for a long, long time.

Fuckin' French, man.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, I still pronounce "macabre" like that and I took four years of French. Old habits are hard to break. I just tend to avoid saying it.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, you are so not alone. This is a very common thing that happens to people who are well read (or at least spend a lot of time reading) and spend less time talking people.

If it makes you feel better, I pronounced "misled" as "mizzled" in my head for like, fifteen years. Fifteen. That is not an exaggeration. I can't even blame that one on unfamiliar French vowel combinations, just my own dumbass self failing to recognize past tense, LOL.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I knew how it was pronounced at the time I read it either, but somewhere along the line, I either heard it spoken or retroactively figured it out once I started taking French in school.

Now, if everyone would please stop saying and typing "boo" that would be great, thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

This sort of thing happens to me all the time. I pick up English words from books with no clue how to actually to pronounce them. I remember trying to talk with an American friend about Terry Pratchett's "Monstrous Regiment" and she corrected me because I tried to pronounce regiment like re-gai-ment. It just happened to be the first time I had to say the word out loud.

[(Anonymous)]

Full same.

The one that I only learned the correct pronunciation of recently (and I'm an internet grandma, I'm as old as CDs are) is 'treatise'.

Which is actually pronounced the way it's spelled, basically 'treat-iss', but I've been reading as 'trea-tize' since the first time I saw it.

Frickin' Hamilton is what corrected me, so thanks LMM? I think?

[(Anonymous)]

Been there, dude. A bunch of times but the one I remember best is epitome, which I thought went like "eppy-tome" for YEARS. YEARS until I said it once at a big family get-together of some kind, and my dad corrected me, and a few people laughed.

[4thofeleven]

...oh.

Well, I learned something today!

[(Anonymous)]

I pronounced it "boo" until I found out otherwise.

Also, superlative was "SOO-per-LATE-ive" until I was corrected in class by one of the other smartypants kids.

I've done that.

[(Anonymous)]

Not with 'beau' in particular, but only because I somehow connected it to the name Beauregard.

But 'coiffure' really, really tripped me up. I still have to look it up because I know the way I want to pronounce it (koif-yur) is not the way it's actually pronounced (kwah-fyoo r).

[(Anonymous)]

I once spent an entire semester in an upper-level college English class pronouncing it "tan-genital-y". And I used that word (tangentially) *a lot*. To this day I don't know if no one noticed or if they just couldn't find a tactful way to correct me. (Honestly I think it was the former, which should tell you something about the grade of that college.)

But the Beau thing messed me up -- not in the singular because my mom explained that to me (not Alcott but L.M. Montgomery), but to this day I can't see "beaux" without pronouncing it in my head as "BOH-ks".

[(Anonymous)]

I learned English through 70% through the Internet, 20% through reading books and 10% through gaming. I'm capable of listening to English, but I still pronounce things wrong very often. It's kind of embarassing cause I don't have a heavy accent, so I sound like a dumb adult instead of a foreigner :|

I pronounced archive with the ch in cheese in my head until I was 18 or something and finally encountered that word in my foreign English class at school...

[froodle]

Same, anon. I was lucky in that a girl named Beau moved into my class when I was a teenager and I heard her correct someone else, but up to that point,I totally thought it was be-yuh.

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same problem with segue.

[(Anonymous)]

I've done it. My mom does it a lot too. We're well-read, we've just never heard some of these words spoken out loud is all.

[(Anonymous)]

When I was in my late teens I was in a (lovely) writers' group. Often I would be reading out a piece of my writing, and suddenly have the horrible realisation that I had no idea how to pronounce the next word in my sentence (used correctly, but I'd only seen it written down previously). That was always very embarrassing. I think everyone else found it amusing/endearing though.