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In your defense, phonetically it is a weird word and it breaks the general pattern in English of where the accent is placed. It is also one of those words that you typically hear a bunch of times before you ever see it written, so it just doesn't have that word recognition.
Ex, segue.
Saaaaaame lol
I mispronounced secondment the first time I saw it written in something I had to talk to client about. I regularly mispronounce names too, but I’ve gotten better at asking people to say their names for me first. I’m an idiot 90% of the time. Oh well.