If you grew up reading Hardy Boys books, chances are you knew the term indicted long before you ever heard it pronounced. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Pronouncing “Indicted””
Grant, we were talking earlier about mispronounced words.
For Pat Autry, the word was indicted, which Pat always read as indicted. Pat read a lot of Hardy Boys, and the police chief was always indicting someone.
Yes, same for me.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and it wasn’t until I started reading the newspaper regularly and listening to the radio, like, you know, getting adult news that I’m like, oh, the connection was made.
Why would that long eye be there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He’s like indicted instead of indicted.
Right.
That’s a big one.
I bet we’ve got a lot of people who have that one.
I bet we do, too.
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