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Guilty

no you don’t fucking understand

my mother makes fun of me every single fucking day because i never learned how to pronounce “infirmary”, “invalid”, “mischievous”, “naivety”, “tousled”, or “macabre” 

IT’S LITERALLY THE WORST THING BECAUSE EVERYONE THINKS YOU’RE AN IDIOT BUT NOBODY USES THE DAMN WORDS AROUND YOU SO YOU NEVER KNOW HOW THEY’RE SAID

^ THIS JUST ABOUT SUMS UP MY WHOLE LIFE

I pronounced “apprentice” as “ap-REE-shee-ant” for like half my life.

is nobody gonna mention “chaos” OR SHOULD I SAY “CHA O’s” 

fucking lapels man or mAYBE “LAY-PELS”

…that’s not even how “apprentice” is spelled…

Tumblr is a safe place to admit this: I have on multiple occasions got audiobooks out purely to hear how certain words are said. These words include ‘macabre’, ‘trousseau’, ‘niche’ and ‘forte’.

oh my god ‘lapels’ isn’t pronounced ‘lay-pels’?

lah-pells, I belive.

I blame being raised a bilingual English-Spanish speaker for the first two years of my life for mispronunciations like:

• pique = pee-kay

oops shhh never

I mispronounced ‘chaos’ in my head quite a lot. Same with ‘chasm’, ‘draught’, ‘potable’, ‘mischievous’, and ‘suite’.

I know I have a ton of these.

• ‘mischievous’ still gets me
• that awkward moment when you are reading a recipe to your mom and your mispronounce ‘bourbon’ and she’s like “…add what?”
• ‘segue’ for the longest time
• I think I still say ‘deity’ wrong. I spell it wrong rather often.
• still not 100% on ‘macabre’

there are more but none of them are coming to mind right now

my life my life

pint tripped me up for the longest time

same with segue, I can’t read it as more than one syllable in my head aaaah

“Gesture” (in front of my junior high school crush, no less), “vigilant” (I always transpose the G and L in my head while reading for some reason), and another one recently that my dad made fun of me for that I can’t remember at the moment. And then a ton more I’m just not thinking of at the moment.

Fuck language, man.

CONSTANTLY.

I was reading recipes out to Mum the other day and she was laughing at me for either pronouncing things flat-out wrong, or pronouncing them the American way, not the Australian way, because the only time I’ve heard them spoken have been on AMERICAN cooking shows.

I still can’t remember whether ‘pecans’ is ‘peh-CANS’ or ‘PEE-cans’.

chagrin?! it’s actually ‘sha-GRIN’ what @__@

(Source: i-am-skriking)