Mispronouncing a word is a bummer. It makes you feel really dumb. Even if you’re not dumb and maybe you’ve just read the word but never said it, you feel like everyone is going to remember you as the person who said “inchoate” as if it referred to attending a New England prep school. Literary bummer: Mispronouncing authors’ names. Seriously, does anyone feel comfortable saying Goethe out loud?
Tags: Goethe, Mispronunciation
