Idiosyncratic pronunciation

[meep]

I'm trying to collect examples of idiosyncratic pronunciation -- when a specific individual has a non-standard way of pronouncing a certain word or related words

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[kwokj]

When I was in school, a student in another class used "cervical" in their presentation repeatedly with emphasis on the second syllable and a long i, instead of emphasis on the first syllable and a short i. I asked my instructor about it later on and he said it wasn't wrong.

I didn't ask about my classmate pronouncing pedometer like pedophile. Pretty sure she was just wrong.

[kwokj]

My husband also used to pronounce subsequently with emphasis on the second syllable and a long e until a coworker corrected him, well into his career, not first job out of school.

[kwokj]

How do you pronounce hegemony; emphasis on first or second syllable? My mother was vigorously against emphasis on the first syllable, and emphatically for emphasis of the second. In fact that was my first introduction the word as a child: her withering reaction to someone on the radio saying it with emphasis on the first. However, it would seem that both are correct/in wide usage.

[meep]

this is my approximation of my pronunciation:

huh-JEH-muh-nee

[anonymous]

Didn't SNL have a sketch about this? Where a doctor pronounced esophagus with a long a?

[meep]

I haven't seen that one, but there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw