just so younger people are aware: a few years ago it was sorta impossible to google how words were pronounced. and it sucked. it was super terrible. the next time an aging asshat tries to shame you for being young, just know I have been pronouncing my vowels wrong my entire life and am still extremely bitter over this. I would strangle countless condescending boomers for the chance to drag even this tiny bit of technological progress back to my primary school days.
the good old days were never good. next time an adult tells you that, look em dead in the eye n tell them they’re either an idiot or a sellout
What words have you been mispronouncing
- deign
- caveat
- perogies
- macabre
- necronomicon
- epitaph
- motif
- analogous
- comparable
- colonel
- egregious
- hyperbole
- ignominious
- superfluous
- malleable
- insatiable
- chaos (i pronounced it ‘cha-chose’ in my head I have no idea why)
- and many others
- you can understand my extreme bitterness
How is colonel said… is it not coll-on-el?
Sadly no.
In English (American) it is pronounced ker-nal.
Think of the KFC guy, Colonel Sanders.