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Never mind, looked it up myself. Apparently epitome came to the English language through the medieval French version of the word, which has an accent and the “e” at the end - while our spelling of it remains mostly the same, that does change the pronunciation.

Right!? And growing up in a place with lots of earthquakes, I was always confused as to why “epicenter,” was pronounced like it’s spelled, but then “epitome” isn’t. Why isn’t it epi-tome?