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What is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?
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In American English vise (the clamp) is pronounced "vahys" and the vice in vice versa is pronounced the same.
British English? I have no idea.
No, not vise. Vice. Like the vice of drinking, etc. Vice in the expression vice versa is a Latin word and like versa needs to be pronounced in Latin.