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# as I posted on QOTW the other week
I thought dilemma was spelt 'dilemna' for years
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:24, archived)
# I like pronouncing "picturesque" as "picture skew"
As it arouses me when people correct me.
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:27, archived)
# I thought that was how it was pronounced for many years
as I'd only read it and never heard it spoken.
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:29, archived)
# if we are doing "never heard it pronounced before"
As I was a precocious* little Chutney who had read a LOT of books by the time I was about 11. I was quite relived the first time I actually heard someone say "Debacle" It had bugged me for years!

*Read: Smug little know-it-all who might have benefited from a clip round the ear.
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:39, archived)
# and in other news...
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:30, archived)
# Pictureskew is my favourite Cardámon
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:36, archived)
# I always pronounced "awry" - or ree - in my head when I read it, yet used the word correctly in speech.
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:46, archived)
# Oh and segue always puzzled me when I read it too.
(, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:47, archived)