You have "a massively large vocabulary" and couldn't think of anything other than "massively large"? 🤔

My wife is the same. Very well read, but never learned the pronounciation of her fancy words.

Imagine the look on her face when I explained that the "hors d'oeuvres" she read about in books are the same thing as the "or durves" she was serving at the party.

I had the opposite, I always thought the word "grandiose" I saw in books was the word "grandeur" that I hear people say, so I always read "grandiose" as "grandeur" and thought "grandeur" was spelled that way. Whenever I heard people say "gran-di-ose" I would pipe up "uh, actually, it's pronounced grandeur, the s is silent".

My son is a voracious reader, and he has the same thing. He's 15 now but still, every so often, he'll say a word and it'll take me a minute to figure out what he means.

With my accent I'm told this is a common issue for me. Not that I notice, even when pointed out.

I don't really value pronunciation as much as some do. If you understand what you're talking about, that matters more than being exposed and remembering the right pronunciation.

So many words we never hear people say, but we read them and have to know them.