Mispronounced words from Reddit

I was linked to a post on Reddit entitled Which words did you mispronounce for years because you’d only seen it in writing?

I was surprised of the kind of words people were mispronouncing and decided to check the correct pronunciation on Dictionary.com. To my dismay, the digitial voice of Dictionary.com didn’t pronounce some of the words in the same way I have been doing for 28 years. Entering all these searches took some time so I thought I’d help you along the way and link to the pronunciation of some of the more common tricky words mentioned in the Reddit post.

As Reddit’s darien_gap so nicely put it: mispronunciation is the sign of somebody who reads at a level above the education level of the people he spends time with.

Here’s the list, once on the new page click the little audio icon to actually hear a digital voice pronounce the word.

albeit
anime
annihilate
awry
archive
banal
bass
cache
chaos
circumference
colonel
conch
debris
debut
deficit
deus ex machina
draught (as in draught beer)
ethereal
epinephrine
epitome
eunuch
facade
focaccia
gauge
hegemony
heresy
hermione
hors d’œuvre
hyperbole
indictment
lingerie
melee
macabre
meatus
meme
miscellaneous
paradigm
phlegm
pseudo
quay
queue
quixotic
ricochet
segue
sentient
sieve
sovereign
subtle
trough
vehement
victuals
zealot