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Discovering you've been pronouncing a word wrong all your life

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um
Oct 2022
2:42pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Good to see Latin & Greek are what a doctor needs, rather than biology ;-)
Although I must admit the 6-ish months I spent doing Ancient Greek (General Studies in 6th form) was one of the most useful things I've ever done.
Better than 2 years of Latin and endless conjugations & decelensions.
Oct 2022
2:49pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Velociraptor
It's true, um. And white witchcraft ;) (I'd have been in a pickle if I'd dropped maths or physics to do biology, I'd never have been able to pick them up on the hoof.)
Oct 2022
7:09pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Steve NordRunner
(^^ Ungula :) )
Oct 2022
7:28pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Mushroom
On a slightly different tack, I once tried to order 'water' whilst visiting a US diner.

The waitress just looked at me, clueless, until I changed the emphasis and dropped the 't' for a 'dd'.
Oct 2022
8:41pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Dave.O
I've grown up most of my life mispronouncing words due to a speech impediment. As a child, I really struggled to pronounce words and went to a specialist speech therapy school.

But one word I still struggle to say even to this day is Phenomenon. It has a tendency to come out as Phenanumnum with me normally trailing off towards the end 😀
Oct 2022
8:48pm, 28 Oct 2022
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GordonG
Re the 'wadder' comment, when I was touring the US I heard of a similar story where a British guy was in a fast food restaurant and they couldn't understand him when he asked for water. When he asked for 'wadder' they immediately knew what he meant
Oct 2022
8:51pm, 28 Oct 2022
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GordonG
When I hear the word 'phenomenon ' I can't help but think of the muppets (do do de do do...)
Oct 2022
8:53pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Dave.O
That's what I kind of end up sounding like🤣
Oct 2022
8:53pm, 28 Oct 2022
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JenHB
[Has the medical world done anything about the fact that hyper- and hypo- are so easily confused and yet so opposite? There must have been medical catastrophes caused by getting it wrong!]


and in a similar vein 'inflammable'... (when referring to materials/solvents)
Oct 2022
9:00pm, 28 Oct 2022
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Pothunter
Reminds me of Dr Nick in The Simpsons: “Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? What a crazy country!”

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