Apropos of nothing, Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley.
Because of course it is. 🤔
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@Cosmichomicide and my brain stops reading to figure out pronunciation before moving on to the actual pronunciation 🤔
Apropos of nothing, Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley.
Because of course it is. 🤔
@Cosmichomicide and my brain stops reading to figure out pronunciation before moving on to the actual pronunciation 🤔
@gls
Victims of sounding out the word like we were taught.
I cannot tell you how many reading words (you know, the ones you only see in books) I've completely bungled the pronunciation of when encountered in the wild.
For years I thought "debris" was "DEB-riss". Sigh.