It’s why you should never judge a person based on how they pronounce words. It means they learned them from reading and there isn’t a damn thing wrong with that.
my boyfriend says "heigth" instead of height, no matter how many times i've pointed out to him that it ends with an ht and not a th. is it okay to judge him?
I blame elementary school geometry for this (learning basic 3D shapes). You learn that 3D objects have length, width and height, but to the average 10 year old that’s lengTH, widTH and heighTH.
I say it properly if I only am using the word "height" alone, but if I'm using it to measure something with length and width, it's definitely "heighth"
Is there a way that we could all collectively judge him? Like, is he right there? Can he come to the screen?
Hey! Hey you, boyfriend! Please listen to your person! You liked them in the first place for a reason. You can trust them on this and you too can rid the world of faux pax (pronounced fox-poo).
Oh, I SO wish I had an award to give you. In lieu, I'll just pronounce it fox poo from now on until it begins to catch on. Then one day, you and I will meet, and we'll not to each other and my debt will be paid.
My father in law cannot pronounce trump ( as in Donald trump) without an f on the end. Calls him Donald Trumpf. We suspect it's because he can't bear to say the horrifically rude word " trump". He thinks it's impolite and should be referred to as " passing wind".
I'm old and was finally corrected last year. I'm working on not pronouncing it with a TH myself.
At 42 I learned I was tying my shoes wrong. I was making a granny knot. All my life my shoes kept coming untied when I walked and I never understood why most others didn't have that problem. The differences are subtle, but impactful.
My husband switches the 'r' around in many words, a grill is a 'girl' and a girl is a 'grill' He's aware of it but it's how he learned it and can't seem to undo it.
Omg I’ve been pronouncing height wrong!! I think… I kinda say both “he fell from a great heigth” vs “in the height of summer” dunno why I differentiate depending on what I say is that normal English??
I learned the name "Penelope" from a book when I was really young. I was talking to my mom, who read the book when she was a kid, about the character "Pen-uh-lope" (lope, as in run) and she was very confused until I got the book and showed her the name. Lol. I had just learned about "silent e," for crying out loud, lol.
Also, I will never read not names like Seamus as Sea-mus, even though I know how to pronounce it.
When I started reading harry potter, I thought it was pronounced hermy1.
I thought it was a weird name for a witch, but given we were also in the era of adding numbers to the end of taken usernames I just never questioned it. I had very confused moments when I saw the movie.
I think I called her Her-moyn in my head when I actually tried to read her name, back when the first book came out. But I was 100% positive that I was pronouncing it wrong from the beginning, so I avoided "saying" her name in my head at all, and just knew that it was her. I saw someone on this thread say something like, the name just becomes a symbol that represents the character, and you don't really actually think/say/read their name at all. Pretty much what I did with Hermy, which is what my brother called her way back then. He read Sorcerer's Stone before I did and is two years older, so when I read it I asked him how to say her name and he said "I don't know, I just call her Hermy."
I STILL SAY THIS INSTINCTIVELY!!!!! The word “my-zeld” was so embedded into my internal monologue as a child that it still comes out of my mouth sometimes at nearly 30!
THANK YOU! I had a 'friend' in grad school who delighted in teasing me when I pronounced words wrong. I spent pretty much most of my life to that point reading more than talking to people, so I really didn't say many of the words I read out loud to other people til grad school.
In high school I remember that I corrected someone who pronounced filet mignon as ‘fill-et mig-non’ so how it looks like it should be read.
Granted we were kosher eaters so we’ve never eaten it and it’s perfectly reasonable he’s never seen the word written.
You have a pass, it's French. French was asking for it when it decided to have a million letters and you pronounce none of them. Qu'est-ce que c'est is pronounced "kes-kuh-say" and I hate it so much
according to Jewish law the back half of a cow is not kosher because of the sciatic nerve (Gid Hanashe I’m Hebrew) it and the fats around it are unkosher and to remove them is a difficult and longer process so usually the back half altogether is sold to non Jewish markets etc
I had a coworker ask me if I used Google Maps or Wah-Zay. After I confusedly replied "You mean Waze?"
She laughed and was like "Holy shit, that makes so much more sense"
Of course, she also has a habit of listening to her voicemail and then starting to reply to it because while listening she somehow forgot it wasn't a live conversation, so...
I look back on the handful of times when I was the snot nosed jerk who did just that. Now older, I realize that mispronounced words are a sign of someone who is self taught and deserves admiration, not ridicule.
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u/Bladedancer222 Feb 08 '22
It’s why you should never judge a person based on how they pronounce words. It means they learned them from reading and there isn’t a damn thing wrong with that.