maybemalapert:

dragontatoes:

mikkeneko:

randomslasher:

It’s a phenomenon unofficially known as “reader’s accent” and it’s very common! Because English has so many words (in fact considered to be the language with the greatest number of words) lots of people, and in particular those who read a lot as children, will encounter a word in writing long before they hear it spoken. They’ll develop the idea of what the word will sound like in their head, and only realize when they hear it spoken that their idea was different than the common pronunciation. 

I’ve even had it where I’ve known words as spoken words, and I’ve known words as written words, and it’s taken me a significant amount of time to realize that they were the same word. One example I can think of is the word indictment. I always thought “indictment” was pronounced “in-dict-ment,” and it was only when all these police indictments started happening on the news (with the news crawls below the words being spoken) that I realized it was “in-DITE-ment.” 

So yeah, never feel bad for discovering that a word in English is pronounced differently than you would’ve expected. English has had influence from SO many other languages over the centuries as it developed, and as a result, many of our pronunciation “guidelines” are borrowed from the languages the words originally came from. It’s massively inconsistent, and it’s one of the reasons that learning English as a second language is so difficult. 

As my favorite poster in the campus writing center used to proclaim: 

“English: A language that lurks in dark alleyways, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.” 

the-inverted-langblr:

it’s okay native speakers have exactly the same experience

geschiedenis-en-talen:

You will not believe the amount of times I’ve read an English word and thought of a pronunciation and then continued to pronounce the word that way in my head for years only to discover that it has a completely different pronunciation and I would’ve made a fool of myself if I had ever pronounced that word out loud

it wasn’t until an adult that I realized that colonel and spoken word “kernal” were the same word

me, 6 years old, seeing the word “chaos”: ….. chah…. ose?
me, 13 years old: it’s pronounced HOW?

I always thought “indictment” was pronounced “in-dict-ment,” and it was only when all these police indictments started happening on the news (with the news crawls below the words being spoken) that I realized it was “in-DITE-ment.” 

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!???

let me tell you about how long I thought hors d'oeuvres and “orderves” were different words

fordarkmornings:

Laura Knight (British, 1877–1970)

starknesskenobi:

When your the lead heroine in a classic literature novel and someone proposes to you:

theartofanimation:

Pinktofu art  -  https://pinktofuart.tumblr.com  -  https://www.instagram.com/pinktofu_art/?hl=es  -  https://pinktofuart.com  -  https://twitter.com/pinktofu_art  -  https://www.behance.net/pinktofuart  -  https://www.patreon.com/pinktofuart  -  https://pinktofuart.carrd.co  -  https://www.redbubble.com/es/people/pinktofuart

razor2therosary:

the black parade is absolutely motherfucking nuts. mcr wrapped on revenge and ms gerard way, known aries, said ok whats next? hmm i think i will give myself a bleached pixie cut, move to a haunted mansion, and write a concept record about death and alcoholism and gender and war and psychosis. i think i will also make my band mates wear goth marching band uniforms, wheel myself out on stage on a gurney every night, and maybe passionately french kiss my guitarist in the name of theatrics. yeah i think thats what ill do. and then they did it. top tier genius

stephdub21:

nicollekidman:

all the reviews for atomic blonde are like “its an empty aesthetic film where charlize theron just dresses up in nice clothes, kicks the shit out of dudes, and has random sex scenes with women” as if that wasn’t my dream action movie 

So like a Bond movie, right?

marthajefferson:

Emma Thompson by Annie Leibovitz, New York, NY, 1995

mono-chrome-me:

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries + Reductress Headlines pt. 1

goddessofidiocy:

thinkin about my two hundred different embarrassing and completely self-indulgent daydream universes that i’ve actually taken time out of my day to create content for and have never shared with anyone bc they’re that embarrassing but not being able to stop bc they’re one of the few things that bring me genuine joy 

falsedetective:

wash your hands before you go………quarantine sadness

sumetal:

centipede-damascus:

maydei:

This… is a Dad Meme.

This is the only good comment on this entire waste of a post

systlin:

wodneswynn:

Y’know, back in my day, if a pestilence swept through the land during a time of famine and flood, it meant that the reigning kings had displeased the gods and that we risked the gods’ further ire by obeying them

Then you took the king out, chopped his head off, and threw him into a bog to appease the angry gods. 

aethersea:

unctuousrobot-deactivated202108:

Scott pilgrim is so funny because apparently when scott kills someone they just respawn back in their hometown. Imagine waking up on your moms couch and having to explain to your sweet mother that some canadian twink fucking decked you over a girl and it killed you

#wait they don’t die

yeah I’ve also been going around assuming scott pilgrim killed seven people and everyone was just like…..cool with it

blackqueerblog:

I’m not gonna watch this for more than an hour 😍😍😍😍

(Source: twitter.com)

myellenficent:

Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge! (2001)