Words I Mispronounced When I Was a Child

This is a very serious webpage.

This is a very serious attempt to get the prize for "most useless data on a webpage".

I think CD collection lists are way underrated — they might be of use in a music industry survey (for example). The following will make any list of CDs seem like the Collected Works of Shakespeare by comparison. It is just a list of words I pronounced wrong (because I saw them in print before hearing them in speech). Let's get on with it:

word	proper pronunciation	how I said it	years
acetylene	/@ "se t@ li:n/	/"eIs taI li:n/	1971-1976
atmosphere	/"{t m@s fi:r/	/"{p n@s fi:r/	1972-1976
material	/m@ "ti:r i @l/	/"m{t @r @l/	1973-1975
coefficients	/%k@U @ "fI S@nts/	/%k@U "e f@ s@nts/	1976-1980
Euler	/"OI l@r/	/"ju: l@r/	1976-1981
Riemann	/"ri: mQn/	/"raI m@n/	1976-1981
Io	/"aI @U/	/"i: @U/	1976-1982
libel	/"laI b@l/	/"lI b@l/	1978-1982
plethora	/"ple T@ r@/	/pl@ "T@U r@/	1978?-198x
subpoena	/s@ "pi: n@/	/%sVb p@O "eI n@/	1980-1984
debacle	/d@ "bQ k@l/	/"deb @ k@l/	1980-2000
February	?	/"feb ju er i/, /"feb ru er i/	1978-current
faceitious	/f@ si: S@s/	/f}s tI ti: @s/	?

The pronunciation key is here

This page was written in the "embarrassingly readable" markup language RHTF, and was last updated on 2010 Oct 14.

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