What is the word...
...for when you mispronounce a word because you learned it from reading it, rather than from hearing it spoken out loud?
We have started hearing that sort of mispronunciation from Cailan. The first one was invasion, which he pronounces with an 'sh' sound like 'shoe' rather than the 'zh' sound typically used for that word. It happened within a couple of days of watching the Life in the Undergrowth DVD, which contained an episode titled 'Invasion of Land'. The DVD menu displayed the titles of the episodes but they were never spoken.
The second one was southern, pronounced like 'south - urn'. This work I believe he picked up from a dinosaur book, referring to a region of China where certain fossils were found.
The third was dumbest, pronounced with a b like 'dum - best'. He was talking about a toy stegosaurus at the time, saying something about it being the dumbest dinosaur, so I suspect a dinosaur book is to blame for that one as well.
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There certainly needs to be a word for that phenomenon. I heard other examples of that sort of thing on "This American Life" awhile back. The one that sticks in my mind was misled (deceived). That word even looks wrong when you type it. The person telling the story had always pronounced it "migh-zuld", with the accent on the first syllable. I like that so much better than the correct pronunciation, that now David and I pronounce it that way intentionally.
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