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:
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word | proper pronunciation | how I said it | years
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acetylene | /@ "se t@ li:n/ | /"eIs taI li:n/ | 1971-1976
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atmosphere | /"{t m@s fi:r/ | /"{p n@s fi:r/ | 1972-1976
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material | /m@ "ti:r i @l/ | /"m{t @r @l/ | 1973-1975
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coefficients | /%k@U @ "fI S@nts/ | /%k@U "e f@ s@nts/ | 1976-1980
| |
Euler | /"OI l@r/ | /"ju: l@r/ | 1976-1981
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Riemann | /"ri: mQn/ | /"raI m@n/ | 1976-1981
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Io | /"aI @U/ | /"i: @U/ | 1976-1982
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libel | /"laI b@l/ | /"lI b@l/ | 1978-1982
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plethora | /"ple T@ r@/ | /pl@ "T@U r@/ | 1978?-198x
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subpoena | /s@ "pi: n@/ | /%sVb p@O "eI n@/ | 1980-1984
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debacle | /d@ "bQ k@l/ | /"deb @ k@l/ | 1980-2000
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February | ? | /"feb ju er i/,
/"feb ru er i/ | 1978-current
| |
faceitious | /f@ si: S@s/ | /f}s tI ti: @s/ | ?
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The pronunciation key is here
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