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I thought Brussels sprouts were baby cabbages until I was 28 and I finally saw them still attached to the stalk.
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The word quay. I'm still mad about that haha
Such a dumb pronunciation. Cool word though.
For years I thought Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and Mickey Rourke (1952-present) were the same guy. I'd see Mickey Rooney in a movie and be like "Wow, he's looking pretty good for his age," thinking he was a man 32 years his senior and/or dead.
I finally twigged when I eventually saw Iron Man 2 (2009) and was like "How is he doing this?!" and actually looked him up.
For me it was Mickey Rooney and Andy Rooney.
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only ever read the word cyan and eventually learned I'd been pronouncing it wrong my whole life when i said it out loud in conversation
Same problem here, but with "Yosemite". As a scandinavian I have no basis for hearing it spoken, so in my head I pronounced it as if it was a very street way of greeting Jewish people.
How were your pronouncing it?
see-EN instead of SY-en
I pronounced it like cayenne pepper until someone corrected me. But I learn a lot of words from reading them before hearing them. HEJeeMOHnee.
Related, Celtics (soft C) are a basketball team, Celts are a ethnic demographic and a Selt is an ancient kind of knife.
I also pronounced cyan like cayenne as a teen….
Except I was also cocky enough to think I was right and found out when I “corrected“ a classmate who was pronouncing it “wrong”.
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/ˈsaɪ.ən/
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Did you happen to learn this during an Among us Stream?
no, it was when i was a cashier
The pronunciation for the name "Byrne". I was pronouncing it like "by-ernie" as if I were excitedly saying "bye, Ernie! 😃"
Then I found out it's pronounced like "burn"! 😂
The monte carlo paradox - my brain really refused to grok it for a long time.
I'm sorry. I hope you are alright.
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The harm that abuse does in the kitchen.
You FUCKING DONKEY
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