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Words I Don't Know How To Pronounce..

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JessM Sat 02-Jul-16 21:44:43

nidifugous. I wanted to say it about 2 tiny balls of fluff following momma partridge today. Fluffed it.

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grannyactivist Sat 02-Jul-16 21:36:25

Ennui - for a very long time I pronounced it en-you-eye. A friend of mine who teaches modern foreign languages hooted with delight once she realised I was actually meaning on-we. blush

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gettingonabit Sat 02-Jul-16 21:32:40

Like tuberose, for example. Is it tuber-ose, or tube-rose?

Another one is aspartame. Is it aspart-aym? Or aspart-amee?

And don't get me going on pedagogy Is it peda-godgy or peda-goggy?

And pedagogical? I don't even want to go there!

And as for uranus- when I was a kid it was always your-anus. Cue giggles round the classroom..

It took me until I was in College to realise that epitome is not pronounced eppy-tome and to this day I don't know if segway and segue are the same thing.

Any more you can think of, o wise ones?

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