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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5928240" data-attributes="member: 54877">Well, the Norman French, and their roots certainly have a lot to answer for on the state of English. But let's not leave out Latin, Greek, Welsh, and the various Germanic languages, either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Welsh is particular rough. My wife and I gave our daughter the middle name Llewellyn, and we still have to stop at times and concentrate to say it correctly. (&quot;Lou Ellen&quot; is close, but misses the mark.)&nbsp;I have the same problem as the OP. I read a lot more than I speak, and thus I get words in my head a certain way, and then never get them out again. My gaming group has vast fun with this, especially since my usual DMing gig gives me lots of chances to mess up. I think on some of the words, they've given up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp;It also doesn't help any that my Dad is one of those characters that likes to deliberately butcher words, similar to the Marx brothers. He's said &quot;anoymous&quot; for &quot;unanimous&quot; so long that he has to think before using either correctly. Grow up with that while reading D&amp;D, and it rubs off on you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5928240, member: 54877"] Well, the Norman French, and their roots certainly have a lot to answer for on the state of English. But let's not leave out Latin, Greek, Welsh, and the various Germanic languages, either. :D Welsh is particular rough. My wife and I gave our daughter the middle name Llewellyn, and we still have to stop at times and concentrate to say it correctly. ("Lou Ellen" is close, but misses the mark.) I have the same problem as the OP. I read a lot more than I speak, and thus I get words in my head a certain way, and then never get them out again. My gaming group has vast fun with this, especially since my usual DMing gig gives me lots of chances to mess up. I think on some of the words, they've given up. :D It also doesn't help any that my Dad is one of those characters that likes to deliberately butcher words, similar to the Marx brothers. He's said "anoymous" for "unanimous" so long that he has to think before using either correctly. Grow up with that while reading D&D, and it rubs off on you. [/QUOTE]

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