Originally Posted by Iucounu
I still every couple of years find out I'm mispronouncing something I learned from context in my early reading.


"Epitome" is the one that sticks out in my memory. I recognized and understood it as a read word, and recognized and understood it as a spoken word, but was well into my 20s before I realized they were the same word.

Last night I mentioned to DD that the "tsk" she was pronouncing as "tisk" was actually a clicky mouth-noise, and it was only during the conversation that I realized that "tut" has got to be the same clicky mouth-noise written differently.

That "er" as a placeholder noise is pronounced the same as the placeholder noise I'd normally write "uh," just written for non-rhotic speakers, was also a late-in-life surprise.