Did Alex Witt just say 'valets'...and pronounce it 'val-itts'?

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12. In a small defense of those who are reading aloud, I sometimes accidently revert to the first

pronounciation (hooked on phonics, ya know) I worked out on words spelled differently than pronounced.

Words from my youth and adolescence like segue, paradigm, ethereal, etc.

A few years ago, I was reading aloud to a sophomore English class when I read paradigm as para dig m and immdediately corrected myself and pronounced it correctly (para dime). Most kids in that class didn't know what the word meant, but one girl who was a reader and had a great vocabulary (as well as a need to score off teachers), raised her hand and asked "Do para dig em and para dime mean the same thing?" with a very smirky attitude.

I, of course, explained that I had mispronounced the word at first and then corrected myself. (But since I had corrected the pronounciation before she asked, I always thought that was a cheap point. :\