Krabapple. I’d been saying Krandall.
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Kilometre. I was saying ‘kilometre’ when it should have been ‘kilometre’
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Thames River. Was pronouncing its Tims, but I guess it’s Tems?!?
This one is just stupid, it still fucks me up but yeah, “Tems”. Ridiculous.
Hyper bowels is a very tricky condition
Used to say systole and diastole wrong because my alevel biology teacher did , egg on my face when I attempted these words at university
Used to really struggle with metronidazole - would say metron-e-dazzo-lay
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Flattened a’s are hot
After nearly two and a half decades of mispronouncing it, I recently learned that Tom Delonge pronounces his last name as “De-long”, not “De-lonj.” Not going to correct myself going forward though.
How often are you saying his name out loud?
Con-trov-ersy is the maddest way of saying it. Hard v sound doesn’t belong in there!
I have no consistency and will pronounce all of these words depending on how I feel in the moment.
Tbf, it should rhyme with lozenge. That’s on Tom.
A loose canon!
Sometimes I change how I pronounce things depending on where they are in a sentence as far as what sounds are around them. This doesn’t make a lot of sense written down but hey.