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Pronounced like the bear, indeed. Or at least that's the way *I* pronounce it...
But then, I pronounce the "t" in often (which my Korean conversation students always gave me hell about), and before I sew a garment, I have to take the wearer's MAY-zhur-ments.
So take my advice at your own risk!
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>I also back-formed the verb misle pronounced /mizzle/
I'd be very careful using that one! mizzle already exists as a verb in about 5 very distinct senses; one of which is used in the (Naval?) phrase: to mizzle one's dick.
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tsuwm helpfully notes: I'd be very careful using that one! mizzle already exists as a verb in about 5 very distinct senses
Oh, great. Now I've got two "m" words.
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Anyway, I'm guessing many of you have had the same experience. Indeed. Vee-HEM-ence, Or-ee (awry), bane-l, tele-FONE-ist and several others which mercifully elude me at present. 
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I did ribald as RYE-bald instead of ribbled. You mean it's not RYE-bald? 
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Bob and français, gurunet gives both ways of saying ribald,
but lists ribbled first. I've always said RYE-bald.
And yes, grisly is pronounced grizzly. I don't know if this is right, but I tend to put three syllables
into the word gristly: griss-el-ly, just to make the
distinction.
Just thought of one I got laughed at for. I used a long
"i" for the first syllable in cringing.
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Sometimes when I mispronounce a word, someone replies, "You have the acCENT on the wrong sylLAHble."
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>acCENT on the wrong sylLAHble. it MUCH easier to say "emPHAsis" rather than "acCENT"! 
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Dear Doug: You have touched on a problem that has painfully tormented me for years: that there is no one place where I can find pronunciations of many words and names the dictionaries ignore.Reading hysterical novels with Gaelic names, Polish names, Greek names, I get trapped into howlers in the company of my linguistic superiors.
As an example, I couple years ago read novel about Poland by James Michener(sp?), in which name of an estate is spelled "Lancut". Naturally I pronounced it "Lan (like man) cut (like haircut)". Halfway through the book, the hostess of the estate tells a visitor it is pronounced "WineSOOTH" It made me want to commit a nuisance on Mitchener's grave. Gaelic names are even worse. PLEASE if anyone knows solution to this problem let me know!
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I usetah give my pal a hard time about "war-shin" (washing) his hands (only because he gave me such a hard time about mine bein' so dirty all the time...)  Here I go, on a journey...
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