I misdispronounciate words as a hobby.
We’ll always have the time we heard a podcaster pronounce the name of the town “Stroke-on-Tent”.
“Never take your friends for granite.”
“It’s alright, Alex. I know you’re not made of stone.”
My friend wants to know how you actually pronounce “fugue”. What a dumb friend, right?
It’s like… “fyoog”
Well, all this feels a bit weird to me as a european. Americans and british pronounce it as f-you-g, but it’s a french loan word, in french /fyg/ (y as in the last letter in particularly). The word itself however comes from the latin fuga, and in german and a lot of other languages the word is fuga or fuge. Fuga is of course pronounced foo-gah (well, not exactly, but close enough) so…I wouldn’t laugh that hard at someone mispronouncing the word in “English” if I were them is my point I guess.
I could imagine somebody thinking of the word “segue” and thinking “Ah, so ‘fugue’ must be pronounced fug-way.”
Oh, fuck. I just had one of those, ‘Duh!’ moments.
RobWords? Yep, RobWords. He’s got some interesting video’s!
On the one hand … “Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”
On the other hand… what else are friends there for?
We were playing some game (don’t even remember what) back in 2005 and I read a card that said Lebron James as “Lee-bron James”.
My wife will not let this go. It’s been almost a full 2 decades, but anytime Lebron is mentioned in any context whatsoever, my wife will give me that look like “haha Lee-bron. You moron.”
I’m ruined on “Lee-“ anything. , because I think of Leeroy Jenkins. Now I’m just imagining Lebron just charging into every play with no strategy, shouting “Leeee-bron James!”
Jokes on them I mispronounce words I learned from reading in ways not supported by the spelling
One dnd session, the dm described the room as having flaming braziers. He pronounced them as “brassieres.”
We never let him forget.
I still mispronounce those words from time to time, and I bloody well know how they’re supposed to be said.
I did that once, but I’m pretty sure my group has long since forgotten
Had a DM that did the same thing. A different dm pronounced chitin as chai-tin
The DM for Critical Role did that in one of the early episodes. I think that if you’re making a podcast, you should check your words for pronunciation.
How are you going to bring up early CR Matthew Mercer without his most infamous pronunciation gaffe?
Sigil* as “siggle”. If I were at that table, I’d still be ribbing him about it (good-naturedly, of course).
^*SIJ-uhl
I imagine Dan Carlin gets a lot of crap over “Makedon” instead of “Macedon” just because he’s being extra
I learned chitin from playing Morrowind. Pronounced it like “chit in” (like in “chip”). But also my local dialect/accent tends to drop pronouncing t’s so it came out more like “chi’in”. To this day it’s an active effort to pronounce it correctly if I ever have to say it out loud
Okay, so I’ve just realised I’ve been pronouncing this wrong.
So I’ve been pronouncing it “chit in”, probably as above - perhaps halfway between “chicken” and “shit in”.
Apparently it’s pronounced “kite in”.
Not that it’s a word that crops up too much, but I’ve almost certainly made other people say it wrong too :(
My friend once put the emphasis on the first syllable of pedantic, and correcting him was probably the single greatest joy I’ve ever felt
So it was ped-antic? I wonder if it’s antics by children or pedestrians
A dear friend once said, "Let’s go to the mall and get some of those Bavarian peck-ins
Chris, if you’re reading this, I’m still loling, bro. 25 years, still loling.
Not pee-cans. Not pick-ahns. Not puh-kahns. Peck-ins. I love that.
Exactly! Chris is Filipino, so his slight accent made it that much more endearing. Cheers to you, friend!
I can’t even tell what it was supposed to be
Malls by me had little kiosks that would sell Bavarian pecans.
Oh wow
At church, they read the part where Jesus heals the leapers.
My mind still reads it ‘foogoo’. Just because I correct it in speech doesn’t mean my mind knows and yearns for a better way.
Haggis and fugu, that’s food for cult eaters
Jim Jones, Father Yod, Charles Manson, they’re cult leadersWhat else are friends for!
