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

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Markymarkmark May 2020 6:50am, 12 May 2020 11,405 posts	0 Markymarkmark I thought it was ex-se-mah, all stressed equally? And .... the bare bear ate a pair of pears which it had pared with a knife, and paired the pieces.
Raemond May 2020 7:16am, 12 May 2020 5,058 posts	0 Raemond Hyperbole is another one of those wrong sounding final e ones, isn't it? I will always say it mentally as hyperbowl, not hyperbollee though. One that struck me last night, as, Maniacal. Man-eye-ack-al, right? Not mayn-ee-ackle?
Dave W May 2020 7:17am, 12 May 2020 1,105 posts	0 Dave W Pare, therefore paring (like pairing). But I'm from Yorkshire, so I know nowt about pronunciation.
Lizzie W May 2020 7:23am, 12 May 2020 23,046 posts	0 Lizzie W MAY-knee-ack. May-knee-ACK-le. MAN-ick IMO
Margarita May 2020 7:38am, 12 May 2020 47 posts	0 Margarita Until recently, I didn't realise that most people pronounce luck and look differently. To me they both rhyme with muck, with an uh sound.
Dave W May 2020 7:41am, 12 May 2020 1,109 posts	0 Dave W They're not pronounced differently here, either. But we're not right posh like some folk...
MH May 2020 8:04am, 12 May 2020 664 posts	0 MH One of my Finnish colleagues would call a UK contact See-ann (his name was Sean). My boss pointed out kindly that it was pronounced 'shawn' same as the actor Sean Penn - 'yes, yes, I know' said X 'See-ann Penn'
Derby Tup May 2020 8:08am, 12 May 2020 41,599 posts	0 Derby Tup Someone once told me fur, fare and fair were all pronounced differently. They were from Liverpool and pronounced just about everything differently mind
Garfield May 2020 8:20am, 12 May 2020 12,685 posts	0 Garfield My husband had one problem name...Penelope! Was defending someone of that name in court...the clerk later corrected him as he had been pronouncing it Penny-lope!
Fitz May 2020 8:23am, 12 May 2020 2,211 posts	0 Fitz Can we add mis-hearings of words and phrases which are then written incorrectly? My favourite is the phrase "to all intensive purposes..." My least favourite is should OF or would OF or could OF, any of which really belong in the gear-grinding thread.