Unlearning? Mis-relearning?

[bironic]

It never occurred to me that the word "nuclear" could be mispronounced until I heard people say "nucular." Since then, I've had to pause to make sure I'm about to say it right.

Similarly, I never had trouble with "prefrontal cortex" until I watched the SGA episode where Sheppard mangled it as "prefrontral cortrex." Now, as I keep coming across the phrase in readings, I stumble over it in my head, adding and subtracting "r"s. What the hell.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Comments

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

*snorfles*

It's pretty common for many people to get the wrong em-PHASIS on the wrong sy-LAB-le. I'm fairly well read and still manage to do it, too.

For example:
Ur A' nus is actually UR' anus. Both just sound bad, heh!
Yes, I used to read that word epitome as epi-TOME until I heard it aloud, too.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I think Uranus is pronounced that way only because people laughed too much otherwise.

[takes-a-fairy.livejournal.com]

LOL! Ur prolly right! =D

After thinking about it, I discovered that I mostly do that with names of products and businesses.

Like Mc A' fee rather than MAC' a fee (the anti-virus software brand)