MISPRONUNCIATIONS

Reddit asked, “What’s a word you’ve been saying wrong your whole life and only realized embarrassingly late?” Some of the responses:
– “I just found out it’s espresso and not expresso.”
– “Hyperbole. I always thought it was hyper bowl.”
– “As a kid, I thought the mayor of Washington D.C. were two people, Mary AND Barry.”
– “I thought it was wheelbarrel instead of wheelbarrow.”
– “Awkward. I always thought it was ackward.”
– “Tabernacle. I thought the emphasis was on the Ber, like ta-barnacle.”
– “I learned I was saying pee-ity instead of piety.”
– “I’m in my 60’s and just learned the word (ennui) was ahn-wee, not en-you-eye.”
– “I thought Quinoa was Quin-oah.”
– “I just learned yesterday that Cary Elwes last name is pronounced El-Wiss. Never could figure it out.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What word have you been mispronouncing all your life?