Timeline for What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
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| Sep 9, 2011 at 4:09 | comment | added | AngryWhenHungry | I think many corrected their pronunciation of 'Hermione' after the Harry Potter movies came out. | |
| Feb 4, 2011 at 18:22 | comment | added | Sky Red | I am so with you on niche and clique. Hate 'nitch' and 'click'. The other way of pronounciation is more elegant-sounding. | |
| Dec 21, 2010 at 11:01 | comment | added | JWEnglish | ha ha - "I just gloss over the names really and don't even fully pronounce them in my head anyway" - i do that too, in novels. In my head I just look at the shape of the letters and think "them". | |
| Nov 25, 2010 at 14:21 | comment | added | Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 | With made-up words and names it's basically impossible to determine the author's intent unless they stick to the most basic spelling rules. In Wheel of Time, Mazrim Taim's last name does not rhyme with "tame", it's "tah-EEM". Thanks Robert Jordan! That's totally obvious. Oh, I should have read the glossary first, you say? No. | |
| Nov 24, 2010 at 15:25 | comment | added | glenatron | Niche and clique are both correct in British English. | |
| Nov 22, 2010 at 22:19 | comment | added | Skilldrick | +1 for "neesh". I hate "nitch". Grrrr, it makes me angry. | |
| Nov 4, 2010 at 22:27 | comment | added | Marthaª | I once lost a spelling bee on "clique", because the teacher told me to spell "click". I still think it was unfair. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 16:58 | comment | added | Richard Gadsden | I say both neesh and cleek too - perhaps I've learned too much French? | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 23:36 | comment | added | kitukwfyer | I say "neesh" too! :) | |
| S Oct 12, 2010 at 23:14 | history | answered | Claudiu | CC BY-SA 2.5 | |
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