Timeline for Is there a word for words that people are more likely to have read than heard, thus don't know how to pronounce?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 21, 2018 at 4:38 | comment | added | Zebrafish | calliope actually has two different acceptable pronunciations, so I would have used a word like gunwale(gunnel) or many other words with one generally acceptable pronunciation that people might mispronounce. | |
| Jun 25, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | But Καλλιόπη is |kali'ɔpe|, after all. I prefer to refer to this phenomenon as getting misled |'maizld| by the spelling. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 12:15 | vote | accept | Francis Norton | ||
| Mar 13, 2017 at 12:15 | comment | added | Francis Norton | I like this - complete with a wonderfully calliope name. I'm going to call them calliope words from now on, and give you the answer point. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 1:33 | history | answered | Nicole | CC BY-SA 3.0 |