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As a kid I used to pronounce amoeba as “a-MO-ba” instead of “a-MEE-ba”.

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I only pronounced that right the first time because I saw it spelt with a œ, which I misread as æ, like encyclopædia. So three cheers for “right for the wrong reason”.

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When I was younger and listening to The Hunger Games, I thought the boy’s name was Peter and my narrator just had an accent.

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I read a book with a Chloe and I thought it was shlow

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This was me as a 7 year-old, reading The Hobbit and LotR. 33 years, and many rereads later, I still pronounce Gollum as golem and Smaug as smog.

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“[…] I still pronounce […] Smaug as smog.”

Wait, what? I can’t remember when it was pronounced in the movies and I also (mentally) pronounce it as ‘Smog.’ It has never come up in IRL conversation so I don’t know how it’s actually pronounced.

Does anyone have a clip/timestamp on a video to show how it’s actually pronounced? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the movies.

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It’s /smawg/, it should sort of feel like the name doesn’t fit me your mouth properly, English phonotactics doesn’t allow for gliding from W to G without a vowel in between.

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I wonder if by the same criteria the opposite also holds true. Are misspelled words dishonorable? And if yes does it matter if they’re nouns or other functional words like there/they’re/their ?

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Correct

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For me it’s the word: ruffians

I still slip up and say roff-ians

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