let me teach you a lesson 
mesmerizing & precarious 
nightmare shadow(ban) person 
She/Her/Dr. 
One very small joy I allow myself in academic spaces is to pronounce “banal” to rhyme with “anal”
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legit thought it was pronounced this way until a college humanities course oops
I pronounced it “correctly” until I got fed up in grad school lol
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I read once (in an extremely opinionated and particular pronunciation guide that spent most of its word count hating on Webster’s 3rd Edition) that you can pronounce “banal” pretty much any way you like. Which is good because I also rhyme it with “anal”
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