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What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong?

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only ever read the word cyan and eventually learned I'd been pronouncing it wrong my whole life when i said it out loud in conversation
- How were your pronouncing it?
  
  Cyan
  
  see-EN instead of SY-en
  
  I pronounced it like cayenne pepper until someone corrected me. But I learn a lot of words from reading them before hearing them. HEJeeMOHnee.
  Related, Celtics (soft C) are a basketball team, Celts are a ethnic demographic and a Selt is an ancient kind of knife.
  
  I also pronounced cyan like cayenne as a teen….
  Except I was also cocky enough to think I was right and found out when I “corrected“ a classmate who was pronouncing it “wrong”.
  
  Same here. I grew up in time and place where english was almost non existent for normal people. Then computers came, but they were gray bricks with no sound output outside PC speaker "beep beep". But the language was there already. For many years english was just written form with zero pronounciation for me. And once we finally got teacher that actually could speak (and who wasn't one lecture ahead of us) it was almost too late. That's why I uderstand quite well, especially written text, but once I have to speak myself... people think I came from stone age or something.
  
  /ˈsaɪ.ən/
  
  I think they said /siˈan/
- Same problem here, but with "Yosemite". As a scandinavian I have no basis for hearing it spoken, so in my head I pronounced it as if it was a very street way of greeting Jewish people.
- Did you happen to learn this during an Among us Stream?
  
  no, it was when i was a cashier

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