Until I was fifteen, I pronounced the word ethereal as ether-real. I also said “predantic” until in my twenties, a friend used the word pedant and I suddenly made the connection. Nobody ever corrected me when I told them to stop being predantic. I’m not sure why.
If you learn new words through reading, sometimes it’s hard to know how to pronounce them. But this website helps:
Hannah Stoney is a British artist and writer.