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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
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I said automaton wrong for years. I said auto-maton instead of au-tomoton. I still cringe a bit thinking about it :-/
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I got Linux wrong for a while
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Likely to be “schedule”
Contiguous. Didn't find out about that one till I got to college... That was embarrassing as f***.
At some point in my life I started enunciating every syllable of the word "comfortable," where as most Americans opt for "kuhmf-tr-bl." I don't remember when or why I started doing otherwise, but I can't go back now.