Few experiences in life are more humiliating than sitting in a restaurant, looking nervously over your menu, and then proceeding to butcher the pronunciation of your meal while shamefully avoiding eye contact with your server. Luckily, a new book from Ross and Kathryn Petras—a brother and sister team who work as “scholars of stupidity,” according to Publisher’s Weekly—seeks to educate the masses by pointing out the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language.
Aptly titled You’re Saying it Wrong, and available on Ten Speed Press, the book unsurprisingly features a number of food items, from everyday gaffes like “croissant” (pronounced “kwah-SAHNT”), to fancier Italian fare like bruschetta (pronounced broo-SKEH-tah).