for a long time Ayn Rand
Prewst.
My kid has been making the opposite error with Louis.
Which is funny/sad because she read 4 books starring a character named Louis at least 3 times. But never out loud.
Proost
This reminds me of a practical joke I pulled on my wife. I’m not really fond of doing practical jokes but I do like being silly. Decades ago we moved to a house that was a couple of blocks away from a road named Roosevelt. I would say the name as roos-i-velt rather than rose-i-velt. I think everyone in the family ignored me as I would dadify names often, but I was on a mission. I never said the name correctly for over two years until one day I mentioned ROOSevelt in conversation and my wife repeated my pronounciation, ROOSevelt. I stopped her mid sentence and said, “honey, it’s pronounced ROSEevelt.” I found this greatly amusing. I got the impression she found it annoying.
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Do we have an actions with obvious results thread? (I did, however, ctm when reading)
Medications are ridiculously easy to mispronounce if you haven’t heard it spoken before.
I used to think the active ingredient in Sudafed was “pseudo EFFA dreen” instead of “pseudo uh FEH drun”. Both are perfectly reasonable phonics attempts at an unknown word.
I take acyclovir.
Spent the first decade calling it “ass-eh-clover” rather than “a-sigh-clo-veer.”
I’ve heard it pronounced both ways. Is one of them right and the other wrong?
You may be right. Merriam Webster has “uh FEH” as a british pronunciation, though neither gives the last syllable as “dreen”. Maybe nobody really knows, so your guess is as good as anyone else’s.
Oh, I didn’t notice the “dreen” part. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that. Either
pseudo-e-FEH-drun
or
pseudo-EF-a-drun
I think I say it both ways. I’m not even sure which I’d say if I wasn’t thinking about it.
What’s the difference between playing a joke on someone and playing a practical joke on them?
When I worked in oncology, even doctors couldn’t agree on how to pronounce Provenge. It was about evenly split between PROH-venge and PRAH-venge.
Unrelated, favorite drug name: ziv-aflibercept. Fun one to say once you figure out how.
erosevelt
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Picture = Pitcher and not Pikchur
Chrysalides (plural of chrysalis) took me some pronunciation practice after I learned that the plural of chrysalis is not chrysalises. 
Since learning how to spell, my kid has started mispronouncing words that I swear she has never seen printed. It’s super weird.