Mine was Pil-ates.
Hey, it's not our fault English just borrows and never adapts the spelling. Or updates spelling as pronunciations change.
English spelling is atrocious.
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Funniest thing for me as a bilingual French is people ~~butchering~~pronouncing French words like hors d'oeuvre or whatever. I mean it's funny but okay, that's both no big deal and you can always educate someone and give them the real French pronunciation if they absolutely wanna sound posh.
But then I'm always so torn when somebody has a clearly French name but again, their pronunciation is atrocious. Like, I try to just ignore it, but sometimes I can just imagine myself jumping at them and screaming how they are pronouncing it wrooooooong, hahaha!
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 do this all the time. My son used to roll his eyes, but now he joins in, asking his grandmother for a "fork and ka-nife" or saying "I can do that, it's my pierogi-tive"
Phonetic transcription exists for a reason. The comments here are full of "this is pronounced as this". Which isn't very helpful.
Well of course it's not very helpful, "this" is quite frankly wrong. Use "this" instead of "this".
Fyoog is just so wrong
*Sad Fyoog noises*
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.
I'm going to pronounce colleague as college now thank you.
Fuck, lol, well now I have to as well, since I was so committed.
Then again, I always pronounce whale-cum, cock-a-ccino, etc, what's one more ~~collage~~ college.
I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.
I still have the irrepressible urge to pronounce the s at the end of "chaos" because I more or less learnt the word through warhammer 40k. Except in French the s is silent.
But now I've moved to the south where the locals have a habit of pronouncing many silent s !
My poor brain is so confused...
Had a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.
Similar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced 'caus'
That's probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
Wait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.
Oh, just in general. English is the cronenburg monster of languages and pronunciation. We will steal your words, pronounce them weirdly, use them wrongly, and claim they've always been ours.
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.
It's usually an etymological thing.
I know fugue in french is said similarly and I wouldn't be surprised if fugue is a french loanword.
entomological
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. source: Wikipedia
There corrected, good catch. Early morning posts are the worst.
Same as what happened to “league”. Forget it, Jack - it’s Englishtown.
I'ma start saying leegu now, especially if it's of legends.
swim away fugu fish, swim away!
Omg it's from 2008. Half my lifetime ago.
Look over there Charlie! It's a magical leoplurodon!
holy shit, there's a part 5 and it's 40 minutes long and
omg
how did I not know about this??
I mean, there's Bababooey.
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.
Perhaps an accidental positive of engagement bait
I keep accidentally saying innuendo and having to apologize because they happen in inappropriate situations.
I just can't help when it pops up.
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.
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