Heh, ameliorate was a better example word. The real one that always comes to mind for me is debacle. I always read it as de-buckle (like unbuckling a belt) in my head until I heard someone on the news say it once. “Lol, that anchor pronounced debacle wrong … wait …”
how did you say it? Amelly-or-ate?
Heh, ameliorate was a better example word. The real one that always comes to mind for me is debacle. I always read it as de-buckle (like unbuckling a belt) in my head until I heard someone on the news say it once. “Lol, that anchor pronounced debacle wrong … wait …”
Damn now debacle is a word I’m sure I’ve only ever read and never heard. Is it not “de-buckle”?
I feel like this is “awry” for me all over again
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/debacle
More like de-BAH-cle. Like a chicken, bawk bawk.
thanks, chicken man!
A-mealio-rate