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only ever read the word cyan and eventually learned I’d been pronouncing it wrong my whole life when i said it out loud in conversation

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How were your pronouncing it?

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Cyan

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see-EN instead of SY-en

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I pronounced it like cayenne pepper until someone corrected me. But I learn a lot of words from reading them before hearing them. HEJeeMOHnee.

Related, Celtics (soft C) are a basketball team, Celts are a ethnic demographic and a Selt is an ancient kind of knife.

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/ˈsaɪ.ən/

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I think they said /siˈan/

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Same problem here, but with “Yosemite”. As a scandinavian I have no basis for hearing it spoken, so in my head I pronounced it as if it was a very street way of greeting Jewish people.

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Did you happen to learn this during an Among us Stream?

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no, it was when i was a cashier

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