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

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mushroom May 2020 3:20pm, 11 May 2020 1,132 posts	0 mushroom [You can while a way a few minutes here...] antipodesmap.com
Tazsedai May 2020 3:30pm, 11 May 2020 798 posts	0 Tazsedai Pelagia as pel-age-ia not Pel-ag-ia in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Fracas with the hard s. Not directly linked, but we were at a wedding where the reader read out every 'Response' that the seated were supposed to respond to. Had a hard time keeping a straight face to that one... And in Wales, directing my boyfriend to Ystrad Mynach (pronounced Uh-strad Mun-ach) my BF said there's nothing on that sign that even starts with a U!!!
swittle May 2020 3:33pm, 11 May 2020 63,521 posts	0 swittle ^ Dooogs 6213 - No, not a Sadhbh - I'll add that to my list! There was a discussion here ages ago about the forename Sorcha. Its pronunciation can be confused with Seóirse [equivalent of George] and its fem. form, Saoirse, mod. Irish for 'freedom'.
Diogenes May 2020 3:36pm, 11 May 2020 48,448 posts	0 Diogenes I like to pronounce grease with a soft s
TRO Saracen May 2020 3:46pm, 11 May 2020 21,098 posts	0 TRO Saracen Eviscerate. Ee-viss-erate? Ee-visk-erate? Eh-viss-erate? Eh-visk-erate? Haven’t a scooby which is right, but have always used no. 2, but heard a radio presenter use 3 today.
Derby Tup May 2020 4:00pm, 11 May 2020 41,562 posts	0 Derby Tup What’s an eviscerate?
swittle May 2020 4:04pm, 11 May 2020 63,530 posts	0 swittle the drawn part of hanged, drawn and quartered
Derby Tup May 2020 4:07pm, 11 May 2020 41,565 posts	0 Derby Tup So TROers lives in the 15th Century then?
swittle May 2020 4:09pm, 11 May 2020 63,531 posts	0 swittle viscera is Latin for entrails. The c would be pronounced 'hard' Talking of 'hard', there was a USA wrestler called Viscera....
chunkywizard May 2020 4:44pm, 11 May 2020 7,680 posts	0 chunkywizard I pronounce is Eh-Viss-erate, but not sure if that is right!