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

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swittle Sep 2020 11:33am, 12 Sep 2020 67,839 posts	0 swittle segue is surely a corruption of Latin's 'sequ-', from 'sequor', I follow. Just en passant....
Steve NordRunner Oct 2022 11:19pm, 24 Oct 2022 2,100 posts	0 Steve NordRunner I heard one of the awful politicians on the radio today say «truce-you-lent» instead of «truck-you-lent». Either way, he was a dice.
Serendippily Oct 2022 11:39pm, 24 Oct 2022 26,898 posts	0 Serendippily Doner kebab Not pronounced as a gift
leaguefreak Oct 2022 5:28pm, 26 Oct 2022 10,812 posts	0 leaguefreak It's ok it's a Turkish word and everyone says it wrong in English anyway. Just like everyone puts the emphasis wrong in Galatasaray. You're just differently wrong to most Brits with the doner kebab thing.
sallykate Oct 2022 7:44pm, 26 Oct 2022 10,553 posts	0 sallykate I'd like to know when people started to emphasise the first syllable in distribute and contribute. I grew up emphasising the second and will continue to do so.
Steve NordRunner Oct 2022 8:05pm, 26 Oct 2022 2,107 posts	0 Steve NordRunner I don't know the answer, but the name of this phenomenon is the “recessive accent”.
Pinks Oct 2022 10:51pm, 26 Oct 2022 39,983 posts	0 Pinks One of my children made me smile last night when they suggested a name for something as penelope. Only instead of pronouncing it pen-e-lo-pe, they pronounced it pen - elope. I now have visions of pens running away to get married.
Surrey Phil Oct 2022 9:39am, 27 Oct 2022 8,671 posts	0 Surrey Phil My mum told us that a waterproof jacket was a 'caggle,' presumably as she had never seen it spelled. It was only after she went into a shop for a new one, the assistant told her, "Madam, it's pronounced kagool." As a result, I now have to slow down and think when I mention one.
Diogenes Oct 2022 11:01am, 27 Oct 2022 73,865 posts	0 Diogenes The first time I saw Persephone written down I heard it as Percy-phone in my head, until the Penny(lope) dropped
Ocelot Spleens Oct 2022 11:34am, 27 Oct 2022 34,999 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I got epitome wrong for ages, and gazebo.