I have just seen the word 'segue' on another thread and remember the first time I heard it spoken. I was quite shocked to hear it (correctly) pronounced 'segway'. Similarly, in my teens I used to say 'en-you-I' before I learned that ennui is pronounced 'on-wee'. I learned most of my vocabulary from books and didn't know how to properly pronounce many of the words I used until I was in my late teens or early twenties - and I expect there are some words that I still haven't cottoned on to. Have any words caught you out with their pronunciation?
(Or is it just me? 
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when, it was probably the gin talking! Ho Ho Ho 
I used to read Girl magazine when I was about seven and thought the character Belle of the Ballet was Belly of the Ball-ett.
The one I remember feeling terribly embarrassed about was 'misso ji nist' for 'misogynist'. I'd felt very proud of having discovered the world, and then horribly deflated when I mis-pronounced it - in an English lesson at school 
I used to have the Dandy comic when I was about 7, and when Desperate Dan said that he was determined to do something, I read it out as 'deetermynd'.
Daphne Broon from the Sunday Post (Granny23 and Anno will know her) was Dafeen Broon. .
And another one; aegis = ee - jis. 
I'm another Penny Loper! But my oldest one is VeeHickle (vehicle) from when I first started reading (saw it on a road sign). My dad called a road in Leeds 'Gipton Appricotch'. He used to cycle past it on his way to school. Always thoght it was an odd name for a street. Then one day, as na adult, he read 'Approach'.
And then there's Beller Offen – otherwise known as the Greek Bellerophon – Bellerophon and Pegasus
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