Misspelling, mispronunciation

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

https://xkcd.com/1816/

I was struck by this, because "misspell" was for a long time the word
that I most often misspelled, but I don't think I've ever mispronounced
"mispronunciation".


--
athel

[bebe...@aol.com]

However, "mispronunciation" is often misspelled ("mispronounciation").

>
> --
> athel

[Robert Bannister]

I confess that for a long time I thought "epitome" and "e-pity-mee" were
separate words. I thought I had read somewhere that "mispronounciation"
was acceptable even though it sounds wrong.

--
Robert B. born England a long time ago;
Western Australia since 1972

[Richard Yates]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:28:42 +0800, Robert Bannister
<rob...@clubtelco.com> wrote:

>On 30/3/17 3:05 pm, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> https://xkcd.com/1816/
>>
>> I was struck by this, because "misspell" was for a long time the word
>> that I most often misspelled, but I don't think I've ever mispronounced
>> "mispronunciation".
>>
>>
>I confess that for a long time I thought "epitome" and "e-pity-mee" were
>separate words.

Your personal "misled"

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

On 2017-03-31 04:42:40 +0000, Richard Yates said:

> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:28:42 +0800, Robert Bannister
> <rob...@clubtelco.com> wrote:
>
>> On 30/3/17 3:05 pm, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>>> https://xkcd.com/1816/
>>>
>>> I was struck by this, because "misspell" was for a long time the word
>>> that I most often misspelled, but I don't think I've ever mispronounced
>>> "mispronunciation".
>>>
>>>
>> I confess that for a long time I thought "epitome" and "e-pity-mee" were
>> separate words.
>
> Your personal "misled"

You got there before me. We had a discussion about misles some years
ago. In my recollection this was about the most common example.

I was quite sure for many years that "misle" was a word.

>
>> I thought I had read somewhere that "mispronounciation"
>> was acceptable even though it sounds wrong.

--
athel

[John Dunlop]

bebe...@aol.com:

> However, "mispronunciation" is often misspelled ("mispronounciation").

And often mispronounced. The Longman Pronunciation Dictionary warns
against it.

--
John

[Peter Moylan]

On 2017-Mar-31 15:28, Robert Bannister wrote:
> On 30/3/17 3:05 pm, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> https://xkcd.com/1816/
>>
>> I was struck by this, because "misspell" was for a long time the word
>> that I most often misspelled, but I don't think I've ever mispronounced
>> "mispronunciation".
>>
> I confess that for a long time I thought "epitome" and "e-pity-mee" were
> separate words. I thought I had read somewhere that "mispronounciation"
> was acceptable even though it sounds wrong.

As a child I certainly mentally mispronounciated "calliope". I had it
right by the time I read about Harry Potter's friend, though.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

[Jerry Friedman]

A friend of mine in grad school claimed that most people mispronounce
"pronunciation" and "mispronunciation" that way. Also that I did. I
don't believe the latter claim.

--
Jerry Friedman

[Rich Ulrich]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:28:42 +0800, Robert Bannister
<rob...@clubtelco.com> wrote:

>

>I confess that for a long time I thought "epitome" and "e-pity-mee" were
>separate words.

When I was 25, I had a vigorous dinner-table discussion about the
word I had assumed was spelled epitomy. Susie and Steve and
Susie all told me I was wrong. We did have a dictionary on hand.

I hope that I accepted the correction graciously, but I don't
remember the ending.

--
Rich Ulrich

[snide...@gmail.com]

For me, there was a light-bulb moment in the middle of reading a passage outloud.
Before that, the other word was "ep tuh mome" (yes, that's 2 errors).

/dps

[Robert Bannister]

Not a word I ever came across as a child, and even this morning I had to
check to make sure it didn't just mean merry-go-round.