InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoWhat is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?hexbear.netimagemessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up154
arrow-up154imageWhat is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-squarePeepinGoodArgslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 months agoParadigm. I pronounced it para-dig-m, like an idiot
minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoTo me that makes it sound like an insect - It’s kinda like a no see em but bigger with a worse bite. No see em is another name for biting midges
minus-squareaveragedrunk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoI like that one. It was one of mine. Two others were macabre and segue. There were a LOT more. I read a lot so I saw a lot more words in print than I heard growing up.
Paradigm. I pronounced it para-dig-m, like an idiot
To me that makes it sound like an insect - It’s kinda like a no see em but bigger with a worse bite.
No see em is another name for biting midges
I like that one. It was one of mine. Two others were macabre and segue.
There were a LOT more. I read a lot so I saw a lot more words in print than I heard growing up.