Discovering you've been pronouncing a word wrong all your life

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mushroom May 2020 12:04pm, 11 May 2020 1,128 posts	0 mushroom I can't have been the only one that had no idea how to pronounce Hermione whilst reading the HP books 20 years ago..!?
Diogenes May 2020 12:26pm, 11 May 2020 48,442 posts	0 Diogenes (I've found that, now I read a lot of audiobooks, I know how to pronounce some unusual words/names that I wouldn't have had a clue on had I been reading the physical book. However, when it comes to writing about them, I have no idea how to spell them.)
Gooner May 2020 12:32pm, 11 May 2020 15,353 posts	0 Gooner Barre, not all my life but recently realised I was just making it sound posh.
Derby Tup May 2020 12:33pm, 11 May 2020 41,542 posts	0 Derby Tup I went through a phase of (purposefully) pronouncing millennium like a raw earth metal ie mill EE knee um. It bugged the hell out of a friend who’s elderly mother was doing similar unintentionally
Wriggling Snake May 2020 12:36pm, 11 May 2020 26,605 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I have always pronounced Tottenham as tossers. A few say I have it wrong.
Serendippily May 2020 12:38pm, 11 May 2020 17,667 posts	0 Serendippily Archipelago Ark-EE-pell-argh-go my attempt Turns up every second para in the “how to train your dragon” books I became like a reluctant horse, stalling everytime it appeared. I even went on YouTube for help
Serendippily May 2020 12:40pm, 11 May 2020 17,668 posts	0 Serendippily Desperate google.co.uk
Wriggling Snake May 2020 12:41pm, 11 May 2020 26,607 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Reading back, I got Epitome incorrectly the same way too. As for HP, I read 50 pages or so of the first books and realised it really was for children, and as such, dull, and never read a word since, I cannot remember Hermione at all.
Surrey Phil May 2020 12:42pm, 11 May 2020 3,794 posts	0 Surrey Phil My mum (and subsequently my brother and I) referred to a cagoule or kagoul as a 'kaggle' for years. It was only when my mum was corrected by a shop assistant that we all changed the pronunciation.
Angus Clydesdale May 2020 12:44pm, 11 May 2020 17,966 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale What’s wrong with Hermy-wun. If it’s good enough for Ben Kenobi.....