OK, so there are words that I know the meaning of when I see them written.
There are words that I know the meaning of when I hear them spoken.
And there are words as to which my brain somehow never made the connection between the written and spoken versions, allowing myself to embarrass myself by mispronouncing a word in front of a bunch of really smart people.
Like the other day when I derided someone else’s comment as being pure hyper-bowl. (Get it, hyperbole?)
I think I’ll be hearing about that for a while.