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

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Gooner May 2020 5:05pm, 11 May 2020 15,374 posts	Quote Pin Gooner google.com Apparently
chunkywizard May 2020 5:14pm, 11 May 2020 7,685 posts	Quote Pin chunkywizard Yay I was right!
Surrey Phil May 2020 5:57pm, 11 May 2020 3,802 posts	Quote Pin Surrey Phil Even people's names have variations. Take golfer José María Olazábal for example. The BBC have pronounced his surname as O-laz-a-bal, then it was O-lath-a-bal and finally Ola-thar-bull. Without speaking to him or those around him, I am still none the wiser.
Serendippily May 2020 6:56pm, 11 May 2020 17,675 posts	Quote Pin Serendippily Boadicia and Boudicca - when did that happen? It’s not like she’s recently departed
swittle May 2020 6:59pm, 11 May 2020 63,533 posts	Quote Pin swittle yep, chunkyw, I follow you. Miscellany is another, similar word [from 'miscellus', mixed, Lat.]
Eynsham Red May 2020 7:35pm, 11 May 2020 5,820 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red Both my wife and pronounced Hallelujah as Allelullia.
Eynsham Red May 2020 7:36pm, 11 May 2020 5,821 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red [It might be a Bristol thing 🤔] I shan’t spell out how I pronounce Boris!
Cerrertonia May 2020 9:41pm, 11 May 2020 12,479 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia The Boudicca one has a bit of an interesting back story - most likely a mis-copying by a medieval monk of Tacitus's Annals led to her being called Boudicea for a couple of hundred years.
Carpathius May 2020 9:49pm, 11 May 2020 19,502 posts	Quote Pin Carpathius What was the outcome of 'antipode' in the end? How ought it to be pronounced?
leaguefreak May 2020 9:52pm, 11 May 2020 8,203 posts	Quote Pin leaguefreak At uni a housemate used to jokingly call raw veg slices for dipping crud-ites after a mispronunciation she heard. It stuck and Mr LF and I adopted it too. Of course we said crud-ites to our kids when giving them cucumber and stuff to gnaw on as little uns. And then had to quietly tell them you dont say like that. In fact, in rugby league country it's probably best to just just call it raw veg sticks...