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| Words I Mispronounced When I Was a Child |
This is a very serious webpage.
This is a very serious attempt to get the prize for "most useless data on a webpage".
I think CD collection lists are way underrated — they might be of use in a music industry survey (for example). The following will make any list of CDs seem like the Collected Works of Shakespeare by comparison. It is just a list of words I pronounced wrong (because I saw them in print before hearing them in speech). Let's get on with it:
| word | proper pronunciation | how I said it | years |
| acetylene | /@ "se t@ li:n/ | /"eIs taI li:n/ | 1971-1976 |
| atmosphere | /"{t m@s fi:r/ | /"{p n@s fi:r/ | 1972-1976 |
| material | /m@ "ti:r i @l/ | /"m{t @r @l/ | 1973-1975 |
| coefficients | /%k@U @ "fI S@nts/ | /%k@U "e f@ s@nts/ | 1976-1980 |
| Euler | /"OI l@r/ | /"ju: l@r/ | 1976-1981 |
| Riemann | /"ri: mQn/ | /"raI m@n/ | 1976-1981 |
| Io | /"aI @U/ | /"i: @U/ | 1976-1982 |
| libel | /"laI b@l/ | /"lI b@l/ | 1978-1982 |
| plethora | /"ple T@ r@/ | /pl@ "T@U r@/ | 1978?-198x |
| subpoena | /s@ "pi: n@/ | /%sVb p@O "eI n@/ | 1980-1984 |
| debacle | /d@ "bQ k@l/ | /"deb @ k@l/ | 1980-2000 |
| February | ? | /"feb ju er i/, /"feb ru er i/ | 1978-current |
| faceitious | /f si: Ss/ | /f}s tI ti: @s/ | ? |
The pronunciation key is here
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