Read us the great story of the separation of Testicles
No. Testicles, though lacking the raw strength of Muscles or the courage of elder Uncles, would not be separated from steadfast Principles. Though many tried to insult him with nicknames like “Tubercles” or “Microparticles”, those could never stick like they did to poor Treacles or restrain his vigor like heavy Manacles.
Tired of senseless Debacles, he studied scholarly Articles and read ancient Chronicles and prayed nightly for the most magnificent Miracles. Finally one day while meditating, a vision of complex Epicycles formed in the most profound Tabernacles of his mind. He awoke to realize it mattered not what hateful words prodded him like chilly Icicles; he was already atop the Pinnacles of manliness, and he wasn’t alone. From that day forth he hung proudly with his wiry protector, the hideous and patchy Follicles no one dared approach.
Or the one about how he got twisted into a knot
A dreadful tale my friend
I can’t unread “unionizing” (the act of joining a union) as un-ionizing (to remove ions from something)
Homeowner
Because of a single line in An 18 year old Questionable Content strip, I will never not pronounce “Penelope” wrong in my head.
Fucking hell, I’ve been reading that comic for longer than some adults have been alive! 😬 #FeelingOld
I still like pronouncing “device” similar to “DaVinci”
One of my favorite mispronounciations comes from the joke how there’s 5 words in the English language with “meow” in them:
meow
meows
meowing
meowed
homeownerI’m a happy ho-meow-ner
That’s… That’s how we pronounce saxophone (saksofoni) in Finnish
But do you pronounce it “sakso-foni” or “sak-sofoni”
I would say the latter is closer. There’s a tiny pause after the k.
funny enough i pronounce persephone the way i pronounce saxophone.
My brother and I have been doing this for decades. The Greek god of up and down is Verticles.
I listen to a podcast called “No Dumb Questions” and they have a bit every once in a while called “Barnacles and Testicles” (pronounced like Greek names) where they voice these time traveling Grecians and just be funny and stupid.
As someone whose contact with English is mostly by reading, this made me sure I’m likely pronouncing a bunch of words wrong in my mind.
Pop-sickles vs Pop-see-kleez in case that helps
