It isn't that we don't pronounce words incorrectly. Everybody does that.snake4769 said:Also good example, i used to do this as well. I hate you elitist basically claiming you never pronounced anything incorrectly in this messed up language known as English.Freakzooi said:It's just Sky rim, although I kind of get what the OP means.
I've been pronouncing the word 'reagent' like 'reegent' for ages, until some British bloke told me it's actually pronounced as 're agent'. Weird how you can mispronounce words for years and not find out about it for a loooong time
However, this case is a bit peculiar. When you're mispronouncing something, like 'melee', you're pronouncing it the way it appears to be pronounced if you judge by the spelling. There's no indication in the word 'melee' that the first 'e' is supposed to be pronounced 'ay'.
So you assume the word follows the basic rules of pronounciation, and say "mee-lee", until someone else uses the word and you realize its pronounciation is an exception from the rules.
When you see the word "Skyrim", and have never heard it spoken, the natural thing to do is to assume all the letters are present in the word and pronounced the way they normally are.
However, you went ahead and assumed from the get go that "Skyrim" was an exception to the rules of pronounciation. That's what people think is weird. Not the fact that you mispronounced a word. It's the fact that you mispronounced a word that's pronounced exactly the way it's written.
i.e. There is no indication anywhere in the word that the 'y' is silent, so why would you assume it was?
