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

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SusiesueH Dec 2022 1:56pm, 19 Dec 2022 4,270 posts	0 SusiesueH I think I have the opposite problem here but I may be proved wrong… I have heard two separate people on the radio today pronounce rhetoric as rheTORic, as opposed to the way I’ve said it all my life which is RHEToric. Am I being gaslighted by radio people??
SusiesueH Dec 2022 1:56pm, 19 Dec 2022 4,271 posts	0 SusiesueH [and also wonder if I mean gaslit…]
Diogenes Dec 2022 1:59pm, 19 Dec 2022 75,221 posts	0 Diogenes If I am saying rhetoric, then I say RHEToric, although the emphasis is fairly even. If I'm saying rhetorical then it's more like rheTORiCAL
GordonG Dec 2022 2:01pm, 19 Dec 2022 9,524 posts	0 GordonG ^ like wot Dio said.
sallykate Dec 2022 2:17pm, 19 Dec 2022 10,809 posts	0 sallykate +1 for Dio.
SusiesueH Dec 2022 3:02pm, 19 Dec 2022 4,272 posts	0 SusiesueH Exactly that Dio, and all. I’ll continue to shout at the radio when I hear it!
sallykate Dec 2022 3:06pm, 19 Dec 2022 10,810 posts	0 sallykate The name Aaron: I say it with a long A at the beginning ("Airon") but I keep hearing it said more like "Arron". What do you all think?
Diogenes Dec 2022 3:10pm, 19 Dec 2022 75,228 posts	0 Diogenes I think that varies according to personal choice. The long A is more American
SusiesueH Dec 2022 3:13pm, 19 Dec 2022 4,273 posts	0 SusiesueH I’ve always know it with the short A
Tinseltubs Dec 2022 3:18pm, 19 Dec 2022 3,727 posts	0 Tinseltubs When we went to NYC we were staying close to the Flatiron building, which I thought was the Flateeron building, not realising that it was in fact Flat iron due to it's shape