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Funny...I didn't read much when I was growing up because the schools I went to made me hate reading.
I spent most of my waking hours watching stuff on the various discovery networks during a time where they showed actual educational material.
The vocabulary I show here in text is only a small portion of the words I know
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 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 :)
You’re very kind.
My colleague actually corrected me to the person I was speaking to: “He means “apostacy””. I died.
I call it being bookish, pronounced "bawkish"
You my dear sir or madam are a GOD for introducing me to that particular day's panel.
chaos, debris, plumber. I hate the english language.
Chaos was mine, I still grit my teeth when I remember first saying to others how I thought it was pronounced and that was almost 3 and a half decades ago...
Thanks to Hugo's House of Horrors, a childhood of peh-nuh-lope for Penelope
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.
Eh-Pit-To-Mi
I always have to force stop myself from saying, epic-tome.
I feel personally attacked.
I am so with you. I'm not a native speaker. I learned most of my English from reading books - thousands of books, actually. So written English is absolutely no problem.
My pronounciation sucks, and my listening comprehension is horrible, on the other hand.
My pet theory is that spoken English and written English are two different languages that kinda translate between them.
In spoken English, "I read books." doesn't have ambiguous tense.
You're not exactly wrong. Spoken english was shaped by mostly the use of common people while writing was exclusively the domain of the clergy and nobility for a very long time.