> > Heheh...it bugs me when people say "libary" or "Ay-mish" (rather than amish). My teeth grind when I hear "expresso", though that error is not as common as it was ten years ago.
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> > --Jez"still says 'misproNOUNCiation'"zika
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> Both my brother and I were reading big thick difficult books long before we had heard most of the words in them. Therefore, there are still words that we pronounce wrong just because that's how they LOOKED. My most recent mis-step was with "adversary". I pronounced it as-VERS-a-ry, because it comes from adverse, which I DO pronounce correctly. Later on, my dad found the word (I had been reading out loud) and said "Ad-VERS-a-ry". I replied "AD-ver-sar-y?", think that that was how I had mispronounced it. It took us a while to sort out who meant what.
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> Ki"mispronunciation is a FORM-id-able AD-ver-sar-y"ki

Hmmm... Didn't Sean Connery say ad-VERS-a-ry in some movie or another? Maybe it was The Rock.

My biology professor pronounces measure as MAY-sure and figure as FIG-er.

Ga"makes me cringe"halia