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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about

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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I’m probably still doing it with some word.

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Zozano@lemy.lol
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Fun fact: every letter except V can be pronounced silently.

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Dicska@lemmy.world
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That’s interesting! How about Q?

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samus12345@lemmy.world
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Lacquer. (Which I believe is the only word in English with a silent Q. Proper nouns don’t count.)

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Dicska@lemmy.world
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Do you mean stuff like acquire? There are a good bunch of ‘cq’ words.

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