‘What’s a word you mispronounced for years and only realised recently?’ – 21 people who’ve been making very pacific mistakes

12.

‘Quinoa. My brain still reads it as kin-oh-ah.’
–a_mom_who_runs

13.

‘Facade for me.’
–jackllane

14.

‘Thames, until I heard in an audio book, I always pronounced it phonetically.’
–fatkidking

15.

‘Cacophony – I was saying ‘cack-0h-phoney’ not ‘cah-coff-any’. In my defense I had NEVER heard it said out loud only read it in books…’
–work-throw-away-420

16.

‘Vanilla. I legitimately thought it was like vaneeya.’
–Defiant-Complaint-13

17.

‘I had the opposite problem. I thought ‘tortilla’ rhymed with ‘vanilla’ and ‘flotilla’.’
–RunDNA

18.

‘Up until my mid twenties I thought the word ‘queue’ was pronounced ‘kway-way’.

Ex: if someone asked me if there was a line for something I would say: ‘Yes, there’s a long kway-way.’ WHY did no one correct me???’
–Fresh-Basil-Banana

19.

‘I knew it was wrong, but had only ever read trebuchet. My brain always just replaced it with ‘tray bucket’.’
–thegeeksshallinherit

20.

‘My wife will never let me live down our second date where I ordered the ‘merr-en-gue’ dessert option and then proceeded to ask about the ‘cog-nack’ only ten minutes later.

The f’kn French, man.’
–Statistactician

21.

‘Hillbilly. I said ‘Hillybilly’ and I stand by it, it sounds so cute.’
–theprincessoflettuce

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