• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Got called out once for pronouncing epitome as Epi-tome.

    That one stung more than Camus as Cah-mus instead of Cah-moo. At least thats just the French fucking with us.

    • nifty@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      It can happen with common words too! Like I didn’t know I was pronouncing Thai food wrong till that John Oliver episode