Virtually everyone has one – a word you find out you’ve been mispronouncing.
For Here & Now’s Robin Young, it was the word “misled,” which she thought was pronounced “mizzled.” For our executive producer Kathleen McKenna, it was “determined,” which she always pronounced “deeter-mined” when she read it on a page.
We put a shout out on our Facebook page for more, and got nearly 100 responses. Ariel Goldberg, director of the Tufts University Psycholinguistics & Linguistics Lab, joins us to explain why it is we mispronounce so many words.
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- Ariel Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University and director of the university’s Psycholinguistics & Linguistics Lab. He tweets @arielmc_g.
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