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[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 46 points 3 months ago

The one that I mispronounced for awhile was hyperbole. I thought it was pronounced like "hyper bowl."

[-] Styxia@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Epitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

So apparently for the latter you can just claim to be using the american pronunciation https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/penchant

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 months ago

All mispronunciations can be defended with linguistic descriptivism. It's usually a pissweak argument though!

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