Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as “aw-ree” like “awful” despite knowing it’s actually “ah-rye”. I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn’t question how it was spelled for a long time.
Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein:
“Antipode” is pronounced “anti-pode” how you’d expect but the plural
“Antipodes” is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that’s the case.
I read so many fantasy books growing up thinking “draught” rhymed with “aught”, instead of just being another spelling of “draft”.
Another good one: gaol = jail. I kept pronouncing it in my head like “gowl”.
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‘Epitome’ will forever be epi-tome in my head: ‘epi’ like in EpiPen and tome as in a big heavy book.
And the ‘c’ in ‘indictment’ also always gets pronounced when I read the word to myself.
Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as “aw-ree” like “awful” despite knowing it’s actually “ah-rye”. I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn’t question how it was spelled for a long time.
Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein: “Antipode” is pronounced “anti-pode” how you’d expect but the plural “Antipodes” is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that’s the case.
Um…it is aw-ree? It’s not like a hard W, but it’s there.
It’s definitely uh-rye
Nope, check the pronunciations here:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/awry
Wait, what’s epitome supposed to be?
this language is bullshit
I knew that long ago, but it’ll remain drawt in my brain, just because…
Thanks, as a non native english speaker, TIL that I also pronounced it wrong the whole time…
So… that’s also how you say checkers in parts of Europe and both pronunciations are acceptable.
Tic Tack Toe is also called Naughts and Crosses.
I call this being bookish (pronounced bawkish or boo-kish)
What about “drouth”?