# Pronouncing "mischievous"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-mischievous/471154>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 4, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-mischievous/471154 "2008-11-04T21:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-mischievous/471154/21 "2008-11-05T23:30:34Z")

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Mis-chi-vus.  
And I stand by mis-chee-vee-us being plain old wrong. Some folks just can’t admit they’re wrong. Thus arguments regarding dialect and idiolect and soforth.

But all you have to do in this case is look at how the word is spelled: mischievous

People rush through and the _ie_ pairing throws them off and they pronounce what they think they see. Easy fix.

When I informed my wife that the _L_ in _salmon_ is silent she was stubborn at first, next embarrassed and now it’s _sa-mun_. She’s not dumb, never has been. Just not informed.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronouncing-mischievous/471154/22 "2008-11-05T23:42:03Z")

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MISS-chiv-us.

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