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

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Dec 2022
4:38pm, 20 Dec 2022
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Nord SledRunner 🛷
What about cafe latte - or is it the horrid l-aaah-te?
CK2
Dec 2022
5:25pm, 20 Dec 2022
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CK2
Yuck! Hate the long aaah in latte. Short, soft a for me.
Dec 2022
9:32am, 22 Dec 2022
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GordonG
for a long time I'd assumed the surname of the actress Miriam was pronounced to rhyme with gargoyles, and not Mar-go-lees. In fact, it's only googling her name now to check the spelling do i realise it's spelt Margolyes (L then Y, not Y then L).
Dec 2022
10:53am, 22 Dec 2022
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Good King Carpathius
Oh! Me too.
Dec 2022
9:46pm, 31 Dec 2022
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NDWDave
Hyundai
Dec 2022
11:44pm, 31 Dec 2022
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3 Wise Ms
Yes. I heard the Hyundai branding being pronounced on the Indiana Jones film last night too!

I can't remember how it was pronounced now though!
Dec 2022
11:57pm, 31 Dec 2022
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swittle
huarache

as in sandals [Beach Boys lyric]
Jan 2023
12:17am, 1 Jan 2023
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McGoohan
Er... how is Hyundai supposed to be pronounced...? because I've got one of those
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8:22am, 1 Jan 2023
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K5 Gus
https://youtu.be/8peKcSEDFB4
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8:27am, 1 Jan 2023
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McGoohan
Ah, okay thanks :-)

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