Worcestershire

Welcome to the world of Irish names!

We got:

• Dearbhla (Derv-la, f)
• caoilfhionn (kee-lin, f)
• Meadhbh (Maeve, f)
• Saoirse (seer-shuh, f)
• Seoirse (shor-shuh, m)
• Caoimhín (kee-veen, m)
• Sadhbh (sive, f)

And many more!

Ghoti

its aluminium

A "niche" is not a "nitch"

For me it isn't "some" word it is "many, many" words.

charcuterie (shar-KOO-terr-ee) (TIL)

potable (POH-tah-bull)

prerogative (preh-ROG-ah-tiv) -- wait, wat? Damn. I say it (pur-OHG-ah-tiv)

preternatural (pree-ter-NAT-chur-al)

remuneration (reh-myoo-ner-AY-shun) -- I'm not admitting how I say it lol

surprise - let's just say I spelled it suprise for ages. sigh

victual (vittle) - wait, that's how you spell it??

Indefatigable (IN-dih-FA-tih-gə-bl) not in-dee-fa-TEEG-able

Primer: \PRIMM-er\ -- small book / short informative piece of writing. (Brits can use long-i for both the paint undercoat and the book).

Mischievous: \MISS-chuh-vuss\ though mis-CHEE-vee-us is a non standard alternate pronunciation.

Interlocutor: \in tuhr LOCK you tore. I had no idea how to pronounce this so I never said it.

I think some "mispronunciations" are down to regional pronunciation. Like, I say miniature as MIN-ih-chure by habit though I'm well aware of how it's spelled and "should" be pronounced. I swear that's how I heard it growing up.

Maybe it isn't regional and it is just me. That would explain some things lol.

And uh, yeah I have a bunch more, some I know but am forgetting at the moment. Undoubtedly I mispronounce many more while having no idea. What must people think of me? Lol

One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.

I was like 25 when I found out it was wheelbarrow and not wheelbarrel

Gnocchi

It's pronounced 'gif'

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Par-mee-zee-in

For the C/C++ nerds: Clang. There are still many people pronouncing it "Cee-lang".

Worcestershire.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiasis.

I must be pronouncing them right enough for voice to text to understand me because I certainly cannot spell those.

You could record the times when you find out a new word that you've been pronouncing wrong. You should notice less and less new mispronounced words as your list of known mispronounced words gets longer and longer. If you graph the data out, you can extrapolate the curve out to infinity, and you can estimate how many total words you're mispronouncing.

I made the mistake of pronouncing epitome as "ep-i-tome" for a while.

I hear so many people pronounce "cavalry" as "calvary," which is a different word altogether.

Chip-o-tot-el

So swaive vs suave or deboner vs debonair? Maybe 'fisticated vs sophisticated? You could be a swaive, deboner, 'fisticated urbane 'burban urbanite.

Personally, I blame the French for the short comings of the English language, just because I randomly can.

It took me a long time before I found out how pilates was actually pronounced

Banal sounds like canal

I once spoke with a Southerner about favorite books. They recommended a series they called "The Will of Time".

Only later I found out they were talking about The Wheel of Time.

Hyperbole, not ‘hyper-bowl’ (like superbowl)

And that is fine, when/if someone corrects you, you explain that you have never heard the word spoken, just read it.

Tri-ummm-vir-ate

As a non native EN speaker, this website helped a lot. Even has regional variants

https://youglish.com/

It’s okay guys. OP meant to write pronunciating.

I had a roommate in college that pronounced "epitome" like "epi-tohm." He also pronounced "tome" like "toom." Drove me nuts.

Not exactly related to the question, but as a non-native English speaker, whenever I read something related to weights in imperial, e.g., 150 lbs, my mind reads it as 150 lubes.

I know it's pounds, if I would read it out loud, I would say pounds cause I'm not a weirdo (well...). But still, my internal monologue has lbs = lubes