Anonymous wrote:In my late 20s at a semi-fancy restaurant I ordered sweetbreads thinking it was sweet bread. I had no idea it was pancreas. I don’t eat meat.

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Anonymous wrote:Word ----- Correct Pronunciation:

REALTOR "REAL-TORE"

JEWELRY "juul-ree"

QUINOA "keen-wah"

NUCLEAR "nu-kleer"

MARYLAND "Murr-lan". heheheh. JK. Its "mare-land"


You know that dictionaries online allow you to click a little volume button and you can hear the correct pronunciation. So even if you don't know how to read the short and long vowels, you can hear it audibly.

JOJOBA "ho-ho-ba"

Anonymous wrote:Until college I thought it was “for all intensive purposes”

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

And Korean churches, and other divided churches. I learned this in my early 20s, after growing up Muslim. While I am no longer practicing, one of the best things about being a minority religion is that you don't have a lot of religious establishments, so you all gather together. Indians & South Asians, Arabs, Africans, Black Muslims, Asian Muslims, European/White Muslims and a few Hispanic Muslims, converts, etc. All praying side by side in one room.

I will say that the gender segregation was very prominent though, and still is to a slightly lesser extent. And I was, and still am bothered by it. But growing up I had no idea churches often divided along race/ethnic lines.

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

again, this is regional.

Jewelry and Realtor are pronounced differently depending on where you were raised.

Huh. I always just assumed that these were simply commonly mispronounced words, rather than words with multiple pronunciations that are considered correct. Like mixing up the vowels in “nuclear” by pronouncing it “nook-you-lar.”

No one so far has offered up the supposed correct pronunciations. So I’ll still with the allegedly incorrect versions.

Anonymous wrote:" How to tell left from right. "

Baseball: right-handers hit to left field, left-handers hit to right field. Odd that I never confuse left field and right field.

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Anonymous wrote:For a word game competition in college i pronounced Sobriquet as so- bri - que - T.

Everyone laughed at me . Worse when it was their turn to speak, they delibertely purposely mispronounced all the words they were using i.e. K - nife, buffe-T, etc. The audience, the comp and all the participants were in stiches!

I still die a thousand deaths when i think of this.

On a related note (there is a theme here), I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. My BF at the time asked if it was a larger version of the superbowl. Cringe!

You are not the one who should be embarrassed by this.

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I used to, but he will never admit to any mistake or change his behavior accordingly,.so I stopped. This is why our Tupperware lids are all warped beyond usefulness (he insists on leaving lids on in microwave even after being shown the nearly invisible instructions not to on the lid). Last week he made a cake for our son's birthday and put plates over the round pans when he took them out of the oven to cool, then refused to acknowledge that this might be why the cake was soggy not "moist," as he insisted.

What was his reason for putting plates over the round pans while they were cooling?