As a Canadian ..... no doot aboot it

"Epitome"

Fuschia is pronounced Fuck-tosia

Archipelago

Still don’t know the correct way.

Mine:

• adolescence = "a-doller-sanse"
• awry = "aww-reeee"
• banal = "banal"

Elegant

For some reason I said “eglant”

Harsh lesson to learn in a 8th grade class speech.

Albeit was al-bite

Segue was si-gyou

I learned epitome is not pronounced ep-e-tome but rather e-pit-toe-me

I said “Sortie” out loud for the first time the other day, and even though it was pronounced correctly I still interrupted my own story to repeat it with a look of disgust, thinking “Surely not!”

None of the Dune audio works can agree on how "Tleilaxu" is pronounced. I've heard everything from "telly-axe-uh" to "t'lay-lax-you"

And now I was like - What? Isn't it supposed to be Tleilax? But yeah, Teixcalaanli Empire, I miss the Memory Called Empire world, I need a third book now!

I just call it the Tex Mex empire

I listen to a lot of audiobooks, so consequently I can tell you all about my favorite characters and alien races but fucked if I know how the author chose to spell it.

How can you read like that?! I have to make up a pronunciation in my head or I can't go on.

You are correct; the "correct" way to correct speech issues like this is to repeat their story back to them using the correct wording.

For my 4yo, currently he is saying hims rather than his. Rather than saying in a corrective way "his, is how you say that, not hims"; you repeat the story, "oh, that is his tractor!".

If you track how kids perform at this, you actually find a bathtub curve. When they are really young and just learning words, they are actually quite good at irregular conjunctions (for the few words they know). Then, as they get older and learn a bunch of other words, they start messing up the irregular ones they used to get right. Then, of course, they eventually learn the exceptions as exceptions.

"The History of English Podcast" is really fun and gets into the weeds of why English is such a mess.

Not be be confused with "The History of England Podcast", which is also really good.

Poppycock. It's mispronounced German and Latin and Greek and French and... well... English, all with a delightful seasoning of mispronounced Dutch and Spanish.

JRPGs are like 50% book so I say we still count it.

Why would you pronounce it "eesh"?

Acetaminophen was hilarious

That's how I thought "quay" was pronounced. Stupid me!

Won a spelling bee in 5th grade with the word camouflage.

No one got the u in the middle. The word took out the whole class, except me. I had been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 a lot and had few friends.

This reads like I'm meming on you but true story

a normal language like spanish that has regular orthography

que necesitas para entender que esto es algo falso? Un Casco?

Spanish is one of the best languages for having the spelling match the pronunciation, but it's not perfect. First of all, you can't spell something just based on hearing it because a /k/ sound can be a 'c' or a 'k', and a /s/ can be an 's' or a 'c'. It also has silent letters like 'h'. Going the other way, seeing the spelling of Mexico, Xalapa, Oaxaca, etc. would lead someone who didn't know to try to pronounce them with a /ks/ sound, but they're really pronounced as if they were spelled Mejico, Jalapa and Oajaca. Then, there are loan words like "psicologia" where the "p" is retained from the original language, but not pronounced in Spanish.

Eh, French isn't that bad, although there is some general fuckery.

If you didn't know how to pronounce something in English before the internet, you were basically shit out of luck.