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Yes, I had only read the word awry and also mispronounced it initially  . I once saw a news woman who, try as she might, could not get out the word helicopter… she kept on pronouncing it HELLICO-peter, correcting herself over and over. I felt so bad for her.
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I was confused for a long time by the two spellings of "dispatch" and "despatch". I didn't check, and pronounced them differently - DISpatch and DESpatch. Got laughed at, yep!  
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I must have been about 30 before I got it that "hors d'oeuvres" and "or durves" were the same thing. I guess the regional pronunciaiton (hate spelling that word) of water, WAH-dur, drives some people up the proverbial wall.
Friend of mine turned Penelope into PEE-neh-lope. Then there was a high school classmate who gave negligee an new definition - "one who neglects."
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Reminds me of Leon Uris' Trinity. I remember pronouncing (only in my head, luckily) the protagonist's hometown as, Ballyatogue as Ball-ee-AY-ta-gyew. I'd love a book (website) like that! 20 years on, I'm guessing the pronunciation is more like BAL-ya-toge. Any help?
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from another thread: HEJ-e-mony
(actually® fairly close to a tertiary orthoepy given by M-W)
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pleth-OR-a. I have a friend who pronounces hyperbole as hy-per-bowl.
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...pronounces hyperbole as hy-per-bowl.
Why, that's simply superbole! Up the Ravens!!
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I just discovered a "misled" I never knew I had-- today's Word of the day: athenaeum. It's pronunced (ath-uh-NEE-um). I've always thought it was uh-THEE-nee-um. lusy, Dearest--I don't know who the Ravens are, but from your hint I'm guessing they must be one of the teams that played in that game the network seems to insist on showing every year.
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>lusy, Dearest--I don't know who the Ravens are, but from your hint I'm guessing they must be one of the teams that played in that game the network seems to insist on showing every year.
Luckily, TEd knows enough geography to know that Bobyoungbalt's arrows directed at Kentucky will not hit Denver if he overshoots.
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Some of you may have managed to miss out on the world domination of Harry Potter (at last count, a small, 14 year old wizard with a lightening shaped scar on his forehead).
Anyway, his best friend was/is called 'Hermione', and I keep hearing people pronounce it 'Her-mee-own' instead of 'Her-my-o-nee'.
And, that's just generated another one - four-head or forread - which is your preference??
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