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Michael J Hunt · 05-13-2010, 06:14 AM

I wonder how many of us, when we were growing up, pronounced words incorrectly until, to our horror (usually at school during a reading session), we discovered we were getting them wrong. I'd like to start with a couple of mine and I invite others to add to the list.

My first (at least, the first one that I felt embarrassed about) was 'pursuit' that I had pronounced 'purswit'. I've just looked up the pronunciation (in my weighty Chambers Dictionary paper version that I couldn't live without) and I was surprised to discover that it has two pronunciations 'pursoot' and 'pursyute'. I wonder if this is an English-English/American-English variant.

The other mis-pronunciation was 'misled', which I read as 'mizzled'.

Bike, I too am a lover of Blackadder - surely it was the most influential comedy series ever (influential, that is, for budding historians, since the accuracy of the contextual content, and, in most cases, the characterisation, was of such a high level).

MJ

05-13-2010, 06:14 AM	#38
Michael J Hunt Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 50000 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Lancashire, England Device: none	I wonder how many of us, when we were growing up, pronounced words incorrectly until, to our horror (usually at school during a reading session), we discovered we were getting them wrong. I'd like to start with a couple of mine and I invite others to add to the list. My first (at least, the first one that I felt embarrassed about) was 'pursuit' that I had pronounced 'purswit'. I've just looked up the pronunciation (in my weighty Chambers Dictionary paper version that I couldn't live without) and I was surprised to discover that it has two pronunciations 'pursoot' and 'pursyute'. I wonder if this is an English-English/American-English variant. The other mis-pronunciation was 'misled', which I read as 'mizzled'. Bike, I too am a lover of Blackadder - surely it was the most influential comedy series ever (influential, that is, for budding historians, since the accuracy of the contextual content, and, in most cases, the characterisation, was of such a high level). MJ Last edited by Michael J Hunt; 05-13-2010 at 06:27 AM.