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Some things you can't live down (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I learned chitin from playing Morrowind. Pronounced it like "chit in" (like in "chip"). But also my local dialect/accent tends to drop pronouncing t's so it came out more like "chi'in". To this day it's an active effort to pronounce it correctly if I ever have to say it out loud

[โ€“] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

Okay, so I've just realised I've been pronouncing this wrong.

So I've been pronouncing it "chit in", probably as above - perhaps halfway between "chicken" and "shit in".

Apparently it's pronounced "kite in".

Not that it's a word that crops up too much, but I've almost certainly made other people say it wrong too :(