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

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jennywren Sep 2020 9:09am, 11 Sep 2020 15,808 posts	0 jennywren Ah. I don’t know DeeGee. I do know that I only found out last week that sloth is pronounced sloth and not slowth.
um Sep 2020 9:09am, 11 Sep 2020 3,266 posts	0 um Why isn't it pronounced sigh-fi (short i) And shouldn't wifi be pronounced wifey ?
sallykate Sep 2020 9:46am, 11 Sep 2020 6,894 posts	0 sallykate jennywren, that's a US / UK thing: it's sloth in British English, slowth in American English. My teenage daughter used to have a go at me for pronouncing it the English way; the look on her face when I played a couple of audio files to prove that I was actually right was an absolute picture.
NDWDave Sep 2020 11:36am, 11 Sep 2020 12,593 posts	0 NDWDave In French, it is whiff-ee
DeeGee Sep 2020 11:44am, 11 Sep 2020 19,709 posts	0 DeeGee I'm surprised the Académie française has let that go unchallenged. Although as an English word it actually means nothing. Not like the German version, "WLAN".
Lizzie W Sep 2020 1:08pm, 11 Sep 2020 23,691 posts	0 Lizzie W Mr W didn't believe me about Segue. He thought (from reading) is was seeg. Luckily I learnt it from hearing it on the radio.
Diogenes Sep 2020 1:10pm, 11 Sep 2020 52,962 posts	0 Diogenes Our WiFi is called Wiffy
Alice the Camel Sep 2020 1:31pm, 11 Sep 2020 5,131 posts	0 Alice the Camel Lizzie, I only learnt segue in the last couple of years. I’m sure Fetch used it in a podcast - or maybe the thread about the podcast - and for some reason the penny dropped
Serendippily Sep 2020 8:30am, 12 Sep 2020 18,990 posts	0 Serendippily Quin-oh-a vs keen-wa still gets me
Lizzie W Sep 2020 9:35am, 12 Sep 2020 23,700 posts	0 Lizzie W Agreed, Dipps, the correct pronunciation must be wrong!