#i said gouda as “gow-duh” for like. longer than i'll admit also

[the-starry-seas]

i think we've known each other long enough that its time i make a confession

I pronounce Ewan McGregor's first name like "Erin", but with the W in there. I have to manually currect myself in my head before i say it out loud. Every time. I read that name and go "Oh! It's Ewin! Wait no, that's wrong."

i think we've known each other long enough that its time i make a confession

I was today years old when I found out it's pronounced Yoo-uhn bc all this time I thought it was Erin but with the W in there

unrelated but it was only like five years ago when I finally realised that 'oregano' wasn't just pronounced Oregon with another O on the end

#voicing our realisations tonight #i said gouda as “gow-duh” for like. longer than i'll admit also #colonel as 'call-uh-nell' #casualties of growing up reading a bajillion words a day but never actually socialising with people. yay homeschooling! yay autism!