Originally Posted By: va-vavoom
I have always had a dictionary handy, but even then, sometimes the pronunciation that I have in my head when I am reading is not at all correct.


Reminds me of my experience with Rex Stout's Nero wolf books. I read most of them many times, and formed a very clear mental picture of Wolfe's house in my early teens which I clung to for decades. Finally I read someone else's description and realized that my layout was a mirror image of Stout's. I think that once we decide how something ought to be it's very hard to see it differently, however much we read the true state of things.