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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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I thought "chattel" as in "chattel slavery" had French pronunciation, like "sha :tel," partly because the term was never really taught to me in any US history classes despite its importance in understanding historical modes of production and the particular brutality of slavery during that period.
It was quite embarrassing and cemented in my mind that, when I see an unusual-looking word in text, I should look up the pronunciation to avoid feeling like a dummy.