Alice 💋 · 15 answers · 3y

What's something you've been mispronouncing until recently? "Niche" for me

I don't think I've ever said these words before but I always thought it was "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes" because I'm retarded

gullið apparently the double L sound in Faroese is the same as in Icelandic "tl".

Tickle. For some reason me and my brother both said tiggle. So it’s not really mispronouncing, it’s more like we thought it was another word completely. We blame our mother because she says it the same way. I was 30 before anyone even questioned my way of saying it.

Well, kind of a reverse situation: I used to pronounce garage like a British person (gare-ij) as a joke and now i just unironically say it like that

Epitome - I’m sorry, but epi-toe-m is the way to go. Epi-tuh-me never doesn’t sound natural to me.

"Niche" ? Americans are notorious to pronounce all alien words as if they were English and set that as a standard. Like the car maker Porsche. The famous German founder had the name Porsche. Still many think it is Porsch ( Porsh ) since in English pronounciation the final "e" is silent. And the assumption is that Porsh is correct. It is a bit as if Germans would say General Motors is a military mobile unit since it goes by the name of a general. LOL.

I know how it’s supposed to be said but my mouth can’t do it. It’s the word conscience.

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