Pronouncing most words "wrong" (just different)

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I usually pronounce the words like they are spelled. With that i have a big problem with French words as a lot of them are nor remotely pronounced like they're spelled.

^Me too.
I pronounce foyer 'foy-er', philosopher 'fee-lo-sofer', and debris 'deb-ris'.

I learned a lot of the words I know in books and online, so I am occasionally told that my pronunciation is wrong when I speak them.

I think some of it depends upon where you're from too. It depends upon dialect (how you talk) or perhaps accent (how you sound)

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Yeah , as far as your 2nd paragraph goes , it seems to me like you would (in general) be the right one .

I pronounce schedule as "schedule" but some people pronounce it as "shedule".

I pronounce often as "often", but some people pronounce it as "offen".

I pronounce Tuesday as "chooseday", but I have now trained myself to pronounce it as "Tuesday".

I pronounce H as "haich", but most people pronounce it as "aich".

I pronounce 3 as "free" but the correct way to pronounce it is to sound the T-H, which sometimes sounds like "sree" when people say it.

The only thing I noticed in my speech is I pronounce "and" more like "ant" and I stick rs at the end of words like "idea" . People have told me I have an "accent" and just asssume it as a russian/new york accent but I actually spend a lot of time around russian speakers and I don't know if it's that.


I also have involuntary vocal fry which I HATE but apperently in some circles it's seen as a sign of being upwardly mobile and educated.

I've only been corrected with two words, I think.

I said 'escalope' as 'antelope', not 'eh-scallop'. And I used to say 'domain' as 'DOH-main' not 'd-main'.

Voted 'no' in the poll.

I never heard any educated person pronounce "often" like its spelled until a few years ago. It was always pronounced "offen" until this pretentious fad started a few years ago of saying "of-ten". The linguist James McWhorter confirmed that it has been the norm to pronounce it "offen" since around 1700.

I do both. Sometimes they are words that can be correctly pronounced more than one way, such as mauve, which are pronounced differently in different regions. The word often, mentioned above, is I think one of these dialectal things and is correct both ways (offen or off-ten). And obviously sometimes pronunciation differences are a matter of accent, such as American English being pronounced different from the "Queen's English" as spoken in the UK or Australia or even South Africa for that matter.

I do tend to adopt idiosyncratic pronunciation almost subconsciously at times. Like from the first time I hear the word schedule pronounced "shed-jule" instead of "sked-jule" I've said "shed-jule" more often than not. I was talking about getting the rent check off before the fifth of this month and I called it tubesday instead of Tuesday and my daughter teased me mercilessly for it. I talk this way without thinking about it a lot of the time. But then when I think others--especially my kids--are pronouncing things wrong I'm quick to correct them. A couple weeks ago I thought my daughter was incorrect pronouncing canon exactly like cannon. Honestly I thought canon was pronounced more like Canaan, with a long [a], because after all it's a single [n] there so wouldn't that lengthen the [a]? But NTHubby told me she was right and I was wrong, canon and cannon are homophones.

And I never, ever, ever pronounce the word Aryan right. Even when I think about it I put the stress on the [y] so it comes out ah-RYE-an, and my husband tells me it's correctly pronounced AIR-ee-yun. And as he's a major WW2 scholar I figure he must be right.

But I also read on facebook last week, and I think this is really good, that you shouldn't make fun of people who mispronounce words, because that means they probably learned their vocabulary by reading (so they are better educated than you think, getting their, or should I say our, vocabulary from books rather than from endless mindless chatter and blather)!

For picture if it's vague it's really hard to know what they are talking about.