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I spent an embarrassing amount of my life thinking epitome was 'epa tome' instead of 'a pit oh me'.
by hueving 11y ago
I spent an embarrassing amount of my life thinking epitome was 'epa tome' instead of 'a pit oh me'.
- monk_e_boy 11y agoOh... today I learn.
- evincarofautumn 11y agoHere’s a sizable list of words like that: http://english.stackexchange.com/q/1431/1506 http://english.stackexchange.com/q/1431/1506
- HillRat 11y agoOh, don't feel too bad; a few weeks ago, my wife had lunch with the Ivy League-pedigreed nth-generation CEO of a reasonably large midsized company who used the exact same mispronunciation. Paris being worth a mass, she chose not to correct him.
- billbrown 11y agoMine was "hitherto." I pronounced it "hit-hurt-oh" once. Once. (It's "hither too" if you didn't know.)
- creshal 11y agoBetter than hit-her-too, I guess.
- tehmaco 11y ago'cache' being pronounced 'kash', not 'kaysh' is one that's still wrong in my brain.
- reconditioned 11y agoI still thought that until just now - that there were 2 different words: epitomy and epitome; epitome being stronger: suggesting some kind of singular platonic ideal the former meaning just a good example of this kind of thing Just as I used to think misled (miss-led) and misled (my-zled) were 2 different words - the latter implying an element of malice