Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as “aw-ree” like “awful” despite knowing it’s actually “ah-rye”. I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn’t question how it was spelled for a long time.
Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein:
“Antipode” is pronounced “anti-pode” how you’d expect but the plural
“Antipodes” is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that’s the case.
‘Epitome’ will forever be epi-tome in my head: ‘epi’ like in EpiPen and tome as in a big heavy book.
And the ‘c’ in ‘indictment’ also always gets pronounced when I read the word to myself.
Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as “aw-ree” like “awful” despite knowing it’s actually “ah-rye”. I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn’t question how it was spelled for a long time.
Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein: “Antipode” is pronounced “anti-pode” how you’d expect but the plural “Antipodes” is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that’s the case.
Um…it is aw-ree? It’s not like a hard W, but it’s there.
It’s definitely uh-rye
Nope, check the pronunciations here:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/awry
Wait, what’s epitome supposed to be?
eh-PIT-oh-mee
I also said the other way growing up 🙂
What the fuck.