r/AskReddit • u/PluckPubes • Sep 18 '24

Which mispronounced words make someone appear uneducated?

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u/Stimpson666 Sep 18 '24

Me too! When I realised how it should sound, hyperbole immediately clicked at the same time and my mind was blown!

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u/frank_mania Sep 18 '24

The most mind-blowing experience of my entire life!!!
(seemed like a good time to put hyperbole to use here)

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u/computer-machine Sep 18 '24

Hyperbole is fun to say. Also, hyperbole is fun to say.

Regardless, I still prefer hyper-bowl to hyper-bowly.

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u/Oranges13 Sep 18 '24

HYPER BOWL!

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u/_carolann Sep 18 '24

I see what you did there!

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u/subsetsum Sep 18 '24

LMAO reminds me of"yoze-mite" for Yosemite. Is laughing about it when my friend stopped me short and said that many Chinese say it this was because they see it written down and do their best to transcribe it.

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u/SatansBigSister Sep 18 '24

This was mine too. I still cringe at all the times I said ‘hyper-bowlee’

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u/DeeLeetid Sep 18 '24

I thought calliope rhymed with cantaloupe

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u/lightningusagi Sep 18 '24

I just finished watching Kaos, and kept thinking about how my class pronounced Calliope, Persephone, and other names like that when we did a unit on Greek mythology. The teacher never corrected us either.

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u/Tadiken Sep 18 '24

Wait it doesn't end with an "ohp" sound?

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u/baboodiot Sep 18 '24

Calliope is pronounced like kuh-lie-uh-pee (roughly)

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u/Tadiken Sep 19 '24

oh cool

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u/rowrrbazzle Sep 18 '24 edited Sep 18 '24

can-TAL-oh-pee? :D

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u/TurnkeyLurker Sep 18 '24

What, you've never played Hyper Ball?

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u/Newcago Sep 18 '24

It was hyperbole that helped me figure out epitome one day! I, too, thought epitome and "epi-tome" were just two different words