Nobody warns about the hazards of reading at a young age.

[Nittersing]

I’ll be mispronouncing words like “haphazard”, “melancholy”, and “hors d'oeuvres” for the rest of my life.

Link to tweet

This tweet started a fun thread and I thought we probably have a fair number of early readers on DU that read and mispronounced words because they hadn't heard them said yet. (“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading”)

Do you struggle with any words?

[Shrike47]

1. Chaos. Why do you cause chaa-ose ?

[spooky3]

2. "Fiery"--as a kid I thought it was "fear-y." Nt

[dchill]

3. My early pronunciation of...

..."rendezvous" comes to mind.

[iscooterliberally]

4. "Grotesque" was one of my favorite words.

I used to say 'grow-tes-squee' and it usually got a laugh.

[Harker]

5. I disappointed my 2nd grade teacher Miss Rathje

in 1967 by pronouncing 'laughter' to rhyme with 'daughter.'

I'd heard it, but not seen it.

I don't remember anyone laughting at me, but I did keep a dictionary closer thereafter.

[Chipper Chat]

6. vis a vis

[TlalocW]

7. I purposely do so to poke at people

Especially words like ballet as ball-et and filet mignon and fill-et mig-non.

TlalocW

[yonder]

8. I've got several but the one at the top is "misled"

Since grade school, my minds ear pronounces it as “My-zuuled”, and if reading aloud, to my embarrassment, that’s the way I too often pronounce it. If misle was a verb, misled would be past tense. I even have a definition: to cheat someone out of something.

I must have mixed up “miser” with it somehow but those neurons were set in stone long ago and seem immune to correction.

“TFG has “misled” too many people out of their hard-earned money and savings with misleading statements and positions. However, those who can think for themselves, have not been misled by his lies.“

[Nittersing]

9. That was a common one per the twitter thread.

[yonder]

11. I should of read a little deeper

But I did find some more on my list. Epitome and foyer often trip me up too.

[LuckyCharms]

10. When I was a kid, the word "stomach". n/t

[rurallib]

12. I was raised catholic an a lot of the early books were about saints

In one book, saint was abbreviated 'St.' as in 'St. Mary.' I asked my mother what 'St.' meant and she told me "Street.'

So for a long while I would see 'St.' would say Street as in Street Joseph and Street Mary stated in a manger.
Street Peter was the first pope. Street Paul wrote the epistles. Street Francis loved the animals.

So do any of you folks have a favorite Street?

Even now when I see 'St.' I think of my little problem as a kid.

[sl8]

13. Halcyon and hegemony. nt