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Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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I only realised recently
that I'd been pronouncing epitome and awry wrong
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 11:35, 11 replies)
This is correct, should anyone be able to read that shite.
iˈpitəmē

əˈrī
(waxdart hello., Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:04, closed)
*facepalm*
My pronunciation of "awry" was not awry, but "eppy-tome" luckily never comes up in conversation around here.
(I helped save b3ta! Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:41, closed)
Lemme guess.
Eppy-toam and or-ee?
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:21, closed)
i sense you're taking the piss here
it is e-pit-o-me and aw-rye
(I helped save b3ta! disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 21 Jul 2010, 12:53, closed)
You are doing it wrong.
The response was asking the original poster how they pronounced the words, not telling the original poster how to pronounce the words.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 13:14, closed)
Could be read either way,
but I like the link to the topic!
(I helped save b3ta! disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 21 Jul 2010, 14:12, closed)
I say 'eppytoam' deliberately.
But then I am a language prat.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 19:22, closed)
I thought
that the written Eppy-Tome and the spoken Ep-it-O-Me were totally different words until about four months ago when my girlfriend laughed at me.
(cypherspace is not a toaster, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 13:50, closed)
bloody greeks
my dad corrected my horribly misinformed pismronunciation of 'hyper-bowl' recently

*shames*
(I helped save b3ta! daikoku has been on a ragga tip since, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:45, closed)
Hyperbole
is exaggeration. Hyperbowl is an interplanetary American football match.
(I helped save b3ta! K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 12:18, closed)
Wait till I tell you about
Kilometre, forte, patriot and harass.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:13, closed)

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