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English is a funny language. Tim grew up with the title as a word in his vocab. His brother found it particularly hilarious when he asked Tim to explain what ‘myzeld’ meant.
Tonight I’ve learnt that chamois leather and shammy leather are one and the same thing. Subtitles are educational, aren’t they?
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8 responses to “Misled (pronunctiation key myzeld)”
Helen’s mum once had the same confusion when she saw the word (even though she knew it)
It’s words you read and make up your own pronunciation for before you ever hear them spoken (or even if you do hear them spoken, not making the link between them). I have a long list of similar!
We like “underbed” storage, seen on a sign at IKEA and pronounced underb’d. 😀
For years I used to say ‘dippa-late-ed’ instead of ‘dilapidated’. I only realised my mistake when my mother ended up crying with laughter at me one day when I was about 15. Did nothing for one’s delicate teen self-image.
Oh, that’s reminding me of my best friends “ank-she-ty” (well come on, you’ve got anxious, how else are you going to pronounce anxiety?).
And I used to say “in-gri-deents” for ingredients, emphasis on first syllable.
I have already blogged about Lost her dog
There is a whole new langwidge out there waiting to be discovered.
When I started chemistry I thought that anions (an-eye-uns we anions like onions, and cations (cat-eye-uns) were kay-shuns. Oh well, we live and learn and the class didnt laugh for too many days 😆