• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Chimera, Chitin, and even Drow are a few that I got wrong because I read them in a book first.

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      Drow will always be pronounced drow to me, never draouuu or whatever it is. Im ok with the proper chimera, but also yea i was wrong for awhile. And it was today that I learned i have been mispronouncing chitin for over a decade in my head.

      The funniest for me will always be Hermione. (Obligitory never spend money on potter stuff, fuck that terf asshole). But it was in one of the later books, when we meet Hagrids brother, that I realized I was saying it wrong. Harids giant brother prounced it the way I had been reading it in my head for years. I thought she was Herm o nin e, her my o knee

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      It stats with ch, I learnt ch words in school. I was very good at them. It is not my fault if someone else can’t manage it, that is how you say it!

      Churchill, Church, Chernobyl.

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        I read the word long before I heard it in school. I said it kind of like it is spelled “Chit” - “In”.