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The first time I saw the word "menus," I thought it rhymed with venus and genus. I figured from context it mean food (this was before all the pull down menus). Also, I thought "misled" was pronounced "missiled" and the context almost confirmed it. This is in addition to alternate pronunciations, such as "feb-you-ary."
I thought it was "missiled" for years, too!
I also thought determined was detter-mined.
Not to mention the criminals who were in-dick-ted.
My stepdaughter could read very early (3) and one of the words she mispronounced was "ashamed". To her, in her world of many books, it was ASH-a-med. We still say it, sometimes, just for laughs.
In grade school on the East Coast, we learned about the WILL-a-met River way out there in Oregon. I ended up marrying a guy from Oregon. He quickly taught me how to remember the correct pronunciation: Wil-LAM-ette, g*d-dammit!
Growing up in a small town we used to, well, actually they still do, pronounce Agatha Street, Ah-Gatha. First time our out of town 4th grade teacher heard that she flipped out.
And a neighboring town, North Versailles, is pronounced North VER-Sales.
Hors d'oeuvres. It came out "Hores dee vores," accompanied by a cacophony of horselaughs.
Have used "appetizers" every since.
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