Tuesday, March 28, 2006

List #23...Words I've mispronounced in public when I was old enough to have it be embarrassing

1. indicted
2. subtle
3. Ralph Fiennes
4. gyro (I never order these because I am afraid of mispronouncing it)
5. jicama (I never cook with these because I have no idea how to say it)

and although I do know the correct pronunciation of the word "crochet," and have never erred aloud with that one, whenever I see it written, my mind automatically reads it as "crotch" and that makes me laugh. Crocheted scarf = crotch scarf, and so forth.

6 comments:

brigita said...

Epoch. For the first 22 years of my life I SWORE it was pronounced EE-pock.

eileen said...

i think you should just convince them that the American pronunciation is crotch-it.

Anonymous said...

gyro can be pronounced in two ways
yE-rO
zhir-O

Go to m-w.com and click on the second definition of gyro and you can listen to the pronunciations.

brigita said...

Actually, Kris, now that I look it up, it appears as though I was right all along! Why did I think I lost that bet...?

eileen said...

That M-W website sure comes in handy!

Anonymous said...

i am sure you have heard the stories about me...socrates and rendevzous...if not just ask roommate!!