Fyoog is just so wrong

At university a college pronounced 'machine' a bit like 'ma-shayna' (almost a bit Slavic? but totally on accident whatever it was). I loved it so much it stuck with me all these years, basically became headcanon.

I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.

Just looking at the word I would definetly read ir as fugu.

Looking at the Wikipedia article, it says it's pronounced fjug. Like what happened to the u and e.

swim away fugu fish, swim away!

Omg it's from 2008. Half my lifetime ago.

I don’t overreact to things I can tell are regional dialects and whatnot. But I recently watched a movie review where the guy pronounced linear as “li-nEAR” and I was the personification of the double take white guy meme. Never heard that one before. And he kept using it throughout, so, somehow, this 30ish year old man has never been corrected. I think everyone that knows him might be playing a cruel joke.

Pretty mainstream. When I was a kid most people struggled to learn how to laugh these things off. These days if you speak on any platform it's a good idea to have some mispronunciations because it catches peoples attention. Even if it's the only thing they'll talk about as long as you're good natured about it you've made progress.

On the one hand ... “Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

On the other hand.. what else are friends there for?

I keep accidentally saying innuendo and having to apologize because they happen in inappropriate situations.

I just can't help when it pops up.

My friend wants to know how you actually pronounce “fugue”. What a dumb friend, right?

One dnd session, the dm described the room as having flaming braziers. He pronounced them as "brassieres."

We never let him forget.

"Never take your friends for granite."

"It's alright, Alex. I know you're not made of stone."

I misdispronounciate words as a hobby.

I mean, there's Bababooey.

My friend once put the emphasis on the first syllable of pedantic, and correcting him was probably the single greatest joy I’ve ever felt

We’ll always have the time we heard a podcaster pronounce the name of the town “Stroke-on-Tent”.

A dear friend once said, "Let's go to the mall and get some of those Bavarian peck-ins

Chris, if you're reading this, I'm still loling, bro. 25 years, still loling.

At church, they read the part where Jesus heals the leapers.

My mind still reads it 'foogoo'. Just because I correct it in speech doesn't mean my mind knows and yearns for a better way.