I have had the fortune to spend much of the last 30-some years being improved by Ellen.
Remarkably I find that no matter how much she corrects, I still have much work that is needed to be done.
The context of this thought resulted from my mentioning this morning that there is a new biopic (movie) coming out about Martin Luther King called Selma that evidently has been well-received.
That led to a discussion about how to pronounce biopic. I say it as if it rhymed with myopic. Ellen said it by saying ‘bio’ and then ‘pic’.
Naturally with the web available, and luckily since everything on the web is always true, I was able to do the research and for once (just this once) learned that Ellen was wrong, though she still denies it. Or at least partially wrong.
If you go to Cambridge Dictionaries Online they have recordings of how Ellen says it, British English, and how I say it, American English. Being the American patriot I am, I will stick with my pronunciation.