Not me, but a friend of mine pronounces rhinoceros as if it rhymes with dinosaur-us.
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"It is called 'baggel'. I lived in New York."
I tend to say Wensleydale, Tuesleydale and Thursleydale as the days of the week. It started as a thing I said to myself because I found it funny, but occasionally I'll slip and say one of them out loud when I'm tired.
I choose to pronounce testicles like Heracles.
HERA-KULLS?!
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That is how it's pronounced though. Unless I've somehow been mispronouncing Heracles...
Heracles is pronounced like /ˈhɛrəkliːz/ HERR-ə-kleez
Ah, I've only ever seen it written. Usually it's the Roman Hercules that I hear spoken. Thanks
No problem! Not a very common word to come across in daily life :)
It's Helico-Pter not Heli-Copter. It's a greek word from hélikos (screw, spiral, winding) and pterón (wing).
And since I'm fun at parties, I consequently pronounce it with a slight pause before and stress on the P and not a miniscule pause after the I and a slight stress on the O.
I have two:
I pronounce the d in Wednesday. Like wedns-day.
Vagaries - vag-air-ees. I think this is an Irish thing.
I'm German. One day my house was being renovated and they were working with jackhammers to remove parts of the facade. It was incredibly loud and I couldn't bear it. I lived close to university and had recently stopped working in one of the institutes. I knew though that my former colleagues had couches in some of their offices so I thought I'd give them a visit. I walked over to the institute and greeted my Australian former coworker. I explained about the noise in my house and said I was "looking for asylum". Knowing the word "asylum" only from written language, I had no idea it was not actually pronounced "ay suh lum". He asked "you're looking for what?" as he obviously hadn't understood. I repeated "ay suh lum" confidently and he politely said "ah". Not long after, I learned the correct pronunciation of asylum and that memory has haunted me ever since. It's been almost 10 years but I still cringe about it.
English is a bastard language without phonetics so you've just got to memorise every word, every phrase, and of course every idiom since half the language is just archaic expressions cobbled together without rhyme or reason (e.g. "rhyme or reason")
That being said, German has a lot of traps to. The pronunciation of "ee" in himbeere and beerdigung, and guessing the spelling of words using "e" vs "ä" is a nightmare
I understand the feeling, but that fear of being wrong is a plague, it prevents learning altogether. Especially languages ! we should be brave enough to proudly make mistakes and learn from them. Proudly. With pride
My wife made fun of me the other day for pronouncing the h in homage. I quickly got my revenge when dictionary.com offered my way as the first pronunciation.
Oh-mage is fancier I will admit.
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I pronounce "beautiful" as "be-ee-ah-ou-tee-ful" like it's 6 syllables.
A long time ago I heard a radio (I'm old) caller saying they pronounced it that way to help them spell it, and i got infected. I never had an issue spelling it, it's just so interesting that I can't help myself.
I thank (and many many others) Bruce Almightys catch phrase "B-E-A-utiful" for remembering/learning how to spell the word.