[ExI] commentary by one of ours

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> I had been reading words all my life and
> making assumptions about their pronunciation, and had been caught out a few
> times. Most notably by pronouncing gazebo in two syllables, which drew
> gales of laughter from a room full of college students. After so much of
> this kind of thing, you tend to get gun shy about using words in
> conversation that you're not used to pronouncing.

I hear you!  My trip-up word was fatigue.  ;)
Others I've hit the wall with were hellebore and clematis and campanula. Gardening
and plant catalogs don't often have pronunciation guides. Sigh.

Regards,
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