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Confession Time: I Have No Idea How to Pronounce Words
Published Mar 4, 2021
Updated Mar 4, 2021
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Culture
Published Mar 4, 2021
Updated Mar 4, 2021
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Confession Time: I Have No Idea How to Pronounce Words
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"G-uoo-ch? G-a-che? Gooosh? - Me attempting to pronounce the word "gouache"
Have you ever had one of those moments when you have read a word dozens, or maybe even hundreds, of times but have no idea how to say it out loud? I am not talking about medical conditions such as dysarthria or aphasia (which prevent people from speaking properly), but those are perfect examples of words that I have never heard out loud. Without consulting a pronunciation guide, my best guess of how to pronounce those words would be dy-sarth-ria and a-phas-ia — two pronunciations I am almost certain are wrong.
Me, attempting to pronounce a new word
As a writer, most of my interactions with words are on a page. I love words, their meaning, their history, their origin, etc. When you learn a new word there is
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