I call this being bookish, pronounced "bockish"
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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Jokes on you, I pronounce most of words in English wrong, because no one bothered to teach me proper pronunciation at school.
I always vaguely wondered where in-FRAIR'd light fit into the spectrum because I only heard people talking about infra-red and ultraviolet...
The colour Beige was my downfall 🙈
Fuck, it's me
Read a quote somewhere a while back, to paraphrase:
Never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word; it means that their reading vocabulary has outgrown their spoken vocabulary.
This is why I love spanish as my second language. You don't have to guess what the word sounds like. Spelling and pronunciation always match.
Truth...hah! I still have words I have to look up on the sly on the internet and click one of those definition services that will pronounce the word for you so I don't sound completely wrong.
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I'm pathetic at both pronunciation and spelling. I just know when I hear it lol.
Auto complete isn't helping either with the situation.
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