There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about

pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 255 points –

Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.

Someone is peDANTic, but they themselves are a PEdant. Probably why they made that mistake

Like how we can reCORD some music and release a a REcord

Or make some COMpost by putting those scraps in the comPOST

I still put scraps into the COMpost, but only the comPOSTable scraps.