How do you pronounce hyperbole?
 

I am so confused right now. Just heard someone on a show saying

hi-pear-bowl-ee

I have always pronounced this hi-per-bowl and it had me not even understanding what the sentence meant at first before I clicked on to what it was. And now the internet tells me that number 1 is correct? Surely not..and surely someone would have pointed this out to me before now if I was mispronouncing quite that much..

Hyper-bowl

hi

per

bo

lay

( and that is te correct way btw)

:joker:

I say it the first way but always feel weird saying it as if it's wrong

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The proper way

Oh wait no

Hi-per-bow-lee

I believe the correct way to pronounce it is hy, per be lee

Its a bit like Persephone, which is not prounounced per se phone :hehe:

go google the word - the proper pronounciation is there and you can listen

and its not hyper-bowl

I have never seen that word before in my life. But yes, I would pronounce that per se phone most likely, if I ever used it.

When I came to the UK first I pronounced someones name as Persephone, everyone fell about laughing, Its Pers se Phony

I'm the same

Wait, people actually pronounce it as hyper-bowl? :/

I genuinely thought til today that thats how it was said yes :laugh:

I could not make sense of something someone said on a TV show, searched for hyperbowlee thinking its a word I have never came across. And went :facepalm:

i mean people say pacific when they mean specific so

Erm, please tell me this isnt another I get wrong. Given specific is pacific just starting with s :suspect:

I'm pretty sure though that I've never actually said the word out loud

I think he mean when people say pacific instead of specific?

This,
Hi, per bolly.:joker:

:thumbs:

Hi Purr Bolly

Edit: Soz, LT's already said that. But better.

When I worked at a college, there was a member of the admissions team who used to tell people, "you can either study for a diploma or a sustifikit".

Hi
Per
Bo
Lee

This is the correct way and I won’t hear any different. :idc:

/hʌɪˈpəːbəli/

According to google. So it seems like its: High - purr - belly