I always knew that "misled" in books (pronounced mīzulled) and the spoken "misled" (mis-led) meant the same thing, but it took me until high school to figure out that mīzulled was only in my head.
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Also... fuck the cobbled together mess that is English.
Edit: some of it is regional pronunciations too
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I call this being bookish, pronounced "bockish"
This is 100% my girlfriend, and I take great pleasure in never correcting her, I find it charming.
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As a French Canadian moving from Quebec to Ontario, that struggle was real.
Bonjour! Bienvenue à Ontario!
English is an absurd language, and something like 30% of English words are from old (Norman?) French. English is my first language and it just seems like pure chaos to me.
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Not me! I only read audiobooks, so I know how to pronounce all those $5 words!
(Just don't know what they mean or how to use them)
in-ter-MINE-able / in-TERM-in-able
Is one that jumps to mind which I still cock up to this day, I feel a little called out 😂
Posthumously was mine.
Epitome is mine.
Omg I love hummus
Did you pronounce it such that it would pair nicely with postpita and postolives?
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I don't see what's so humorous about that
It's post-humor. That means you will get it in 3-15 working days.
Oh that makes sense. Much salutations, my good acquittal.