Always Mispronouncing?

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Well Codeman, it's a good thing you can pernounce pernounce right!

What?! You mean it ISN'T pronounced 'on-eye-on'?!

Like so many others here I've learned most of my language by reading. So it's to be expected that I would pronounce things wrong at times.

I used to think it was meant to be said "seen 'jeh' one, seen Amal", like a mispronunciation of 'the'

How do you pronounce Hermione then?



Nope, it's a reading thing. Maybe aspies read more than average NTs, but you get bookworm NTs too.

Hermione = her-MY-oh-nee

I always thought it was Her-mee-own til the film came out.

I stip and trumble ( ) over my words a lot, but it's hopeless when I'm nervous. That's why I prefer sign language!

I do that alot. I know how to pronounce the word, but sometimes I just can't say it the way I want to. One day i was doing it so bad a guy asked me if I was from a different country because it sounded like I had an accent.

I mispronounce words i've never heard pronounced before and i get so pissed at people who correct me condescendingly because how the hell was i supposed to know how it is pronounced?! This is english dammit!

Phonetic dictionary is how although I found this out rather late in life.

Yeah, I'm the same with learning alot of words from reading so I pronounce them in a different way, like perturbed I say per-toobed and things like that. I can't think of any other examples, which is probably a good thing .

I misproununce words all the time and I get tongue-tired,too.Like,the other day,instead of saying,"Kinda,sorta" I said,"Sinda,korta."


-SpaceCase

That's called a spoonerism. Famous examples:
A well boiled icicle - a well oiled bicycle
Fighting liars - lighting fires
and more... http://www.fun-with-words.com/spoonerisms.html

I used to think the word "nearby" was pronounced ner-bee. I took me years to figure out the correct way of saying it and I still read it the wrong way

Just a thought - does anyone mix up their word order within a sentence? I don't tend to now, because I correct myself just before actually speaking the words, but when I'm thinking of a sentence the nouns are often the wrong way, if not the verbs as well.

I stutter sometimes and often trip over my words, though when I mispronounce something I do realize I've mispronounced it and try to correct myself.

When I was younger I used to call Popeye, PiePie. And my mother couldn't convince me otherwise for a very long time. I also called those Chips Ahoy! cookies "Chips Mahoy". Typical stubborn, eccentric little kid stuff.

I slur and mispronounce my words all the time, but I always attributed it to being half deaf in my left ear.

I don't remember this, but my dad told me that as a toddler, I always pronounced "bishops" (Chess) like "dish-ups"

And I always pronounce Emoticons as "emmy-colons"