You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?
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Highpurrbolley.
I pronounced it hyper-bowl in my head for a loooong time until I had to say it out loud one time and got laughed at.
As someone who read a lot as a child I still find myself saying hyperbowl. I'd certainly heard the correct pronunciation but it wasn't until very late that I made the connection to the word I'd learned by reading.
I was it my 30s before I found how to say it properly. It really doesn’t help that hyperbolic is spoken properly. Hy-per-bol-ic. Damn you written words.
Same!
Aphrodite, Hyperbole.. Greek Eta sounds like ee.
The fact that hyperbolic is pronounced like that makes it so much fucking worse