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Originally Posted By: TromboniatorOriginally Posted By: va-vavoomI 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.
Was the someone else Rex Stout? If not, yours may be just as valid as theirs.
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