answer:I remember the first time I heard a specific word pronounced correctly. I was sitting drinking coffee with a friend in a HOJOs in autumn, 1992. I was 39 years old. We were taking a class together. The word was cacaphony. I’d only read the word, never heard it spoken. She said it and I didn’t recognize it all at first. The context was about noise. Then I realized what she had said and it was such an epiphany. I’m not kidding. Her pronounciation was so entirely different from mine that it sounded like one of the most beautiful words I’d ever heard. Or maybe it was the coffee. Anyway, I still remember that moment; the when, where and who, but I can’t remember the conversation for the life of me.