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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:31 am
I thought of an amusing topic when reading the existing one regarding looking up words when reading.
Like many people, I read a great deal as I grew up and much of my vocabulary was learned from books, that is, defining new words by their context.
The funny thing is often I would know what a word meant and how to spell it, but on the rare occasions I had to say it people would start laughing because I said it wrong.
Like when I was around 12, and read "Swiss Family Robinson", I asked my family to clarify this word "fatty-goo." (fatigue)
I also still struggle with putting the proper accents on certain words like "formidable" because I said it wrong to myself for years as I read. The funniest one has to be "illegitimate" which I always say "ill-legimate."
Have any of you had this experience?
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:03 am
Yes.
Henna (I pronouce it He Nah instead of Hen Nah)
Celtic (I pronouce it Kel tick instead of Sell tic, though i learned it can be pronounce either way)
Hyperbole (I pronouce it Hyper Bowl, instead of Hi per bow lay)
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:35 am
I still have trouble with macabre which I usually pronounce mak-ab-er instead of muh-cob
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:32 am
I occasionally still run into this problem of being unable to pronounce words properly. Sometimes I would find myself just randomly flipping through the dictionary to look up the meanings of new words and then I would get so excited when I'd later read them in a book, knowing what they meant when no one else did.
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:04 pm
I'm chuckling now because I also have trouble with the same words you mention, except "macabre", which I used to say "ma-cob-breh" and now say correctly thanks to listening to people do Edgar Allan Poe out loud.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:56 pm
Oh, I'm so glad you made this topic! I absolutely do have the same problem. Like you, I got a great deal of my vocabulary from books, and I've had some funny/embarrassing moments when I pronounce such words incorrectly. Of course, it's quite hard to change how I say things after I've said them one way in my head for years. And I still (to myself) read 'macabre' as mah-cob-breh. sweatdrop
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:53 am
This word... "Her-My-Oh-Nyh"and I will stick to the Swedish pronauncing: "Hermione", Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter books. domokun
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:31 pm
I say doctor like "doc-tour", its with a little bit of a accent.
A little thing with the title. Are there times when you know something but don't know it. Its like you heard something but didn't hear it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:45 pm
When there's a word in a new language that I don't know in a book I tend to pronounce it with a French accent or say it in French and then I get funny looks in the classroom. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:47 pm
Oh, yes.
I learned my first language through reading when I was four or five, so there are a ton of words I pronounce wrong.
I actually speak my second language better than my first when it comes to pronunciation, which is a little embarrassing.
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:18 am
rockywitch When there's a word in a new language that I don't know in a book I tend to pronounce it with a French accent or say it in French and then I get funny looks in the classroom. sweatdrop Parle vous francese? Thats is very intersting, on a side note, a Freanch accent is my "speiclaty." (sp sweatdrop ) SilentShadowDreamer Oh, yes. I learned my first language through reading when I was four or five, so there are a ton of words I pronounce wrong. I actually speak my second language better than my first when it comes to pronunciation, which is a little embarrassing. I don't quite remember when I really begain to read but it must have helped me with talking because I was/am shy so I did/ don't talk much. So what is your second language?
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:06 am
dark_elf rockywitch When there's a word in a new language that I don't know in a book I tend to pronounce it with a French accent or say it in French and then I get funny looks in the classroom. sweatdrop Parle vous francese? Thats is very intersting, on a side note, a Freanch accent is my "speiclaty." (sp sweatdrop ) Oui, je parle le Francais. But I can't really put a French accent in English unless I talk fluent French for two days and then I have an accent lol.
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:52 pm
Oh god. Xerox boxes. I tried to tell my mom about them once and said Ex-er-ox. It turns out it was Zeerox. crying
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:05 pm
I can't remember if that ever happened much to me or not for the reasons you stated, but I know I mispronounced words I read out loud anyway. I had tubes in my ears when I was little so I heard differently. Maybe I just pestered my parents until they told me or they figured out what I was saying and laughed. Don't know, one of life's great mysteries.
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:28 pm
I have had occasional mispronunciations, just like everyone else here. What can be even more ammusing though, is when you pick up the wrong meaning, not the wrong pronunciation. The funniest occurance of this I'v heard however, was occuring to somone else. The poor guy thought a Bordello was some sort of very big bowl. Apparently he was overheard saying that he could 'Just dive into a bordello of chocolate'! rofl
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