My worst example was the word GIF pronounced like the peanut butter instead of properly as in Graphical. It’s worse because Amanda Montell was writing a linguistics book about the history of language and words.

Recent example was “eschew” which is pronounced Eh-shoo but the narrator said “Eskew” and it confused me so much I had to Google it to make sure I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life. What exmaples have you found?

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    1 year ago

    There’s a bit in the Simpsons where Marge says foilage and Lisa corrects her and says foliage (or maybe Lisa says foliage and someone “corrects” her and says foilage? I can’t remember and it’s not really important).

    All of that to say, that my husband and I sometimes “correct” eachother’s correct pronunciation with the wrong one, and foliage/foilage is a favorite of ours, lol.