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Trudy Booth - Mar 23, 2011 10:19:27 am PDT #29845 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I have to check myself every time I say hyperbole out loud, because I still pronounce it hyperbowl in my head.

I'm similar with February and Wednesday. I know how to pronounce them correctly, but I mis-pronounce them in my head for spelling purposes.

Ginger - Mar 23, 2011 10:23:10 am PDT #29846 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

ION, someone had left a Worm's Way garden supply catalog at the Y that I looked at on the treadmill. The entry for Garlic Barrier [link] said, "Repels harmful bugs and Team Edward." The one for soft twist tie wire said, "We're very bendy."

Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2011 10:24:35 am PDT #29847 of 30001
brillig

My mother could not say the name Nelson without putting the letter T in between the syllables, Neltson. I'm afraid we mocked her for it, which she took with good grace. I never tried her on Wilson.

Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 10:26:16 am PDT #29848 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

One of my girls says "bitch" by pronouncing every one of the last 3 consonants.

§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 10:26:26 am PDT #29849 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Misled is my word. How the fuck I got to university thinking "misle" was a verb--I should be ashamed of myself.

Then I found out my considerably more erudite sister did the same thing.

Allyson, I'd love to meet your mother. Seriously.

Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 10:27:16 am PDT #29850 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Who has 2 thumbs and does not want to hop on her newsletter conference call in 3 minutes?

Steph L. - Mar 23, 2011 10:30:09 am PDT #29851 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I'm similar with February and Wednesday. I know how to pronounce them correctly, but I mis-pronounce them in my head for spelling purposes.

I talk so quickly that I pronounce "twenty" like a lot of people do -- "twenny." And the nuns in my high school, for some reason, always pounced on that and would stop me (or whoever said it) and make them pronounce it correctly -- "twen-tee."

And I still say it "twenny."

Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 10:35:30 am PDT #29852 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

You should be a rapper called 20 Cent.

Kathy A - Mar 23, 2011 10:36:40 am PDT #29853 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I had a teacher in high school that busted me for saying "git" instead of "get."

Kate P. - Mar 23, 2011 10:36:53 am PDT #29854 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Misled is my word. How the fuck I got to university thinking "misle" was a verb--I should be ashamed of myself.

Then I found out my considerably more erudite sister did the same thing.

Heh. My very smart dad used to mispronounce it that way as a kid, and now I can't see the word without pronouncing it MIZE-ld in my head.

"Erudite" is one I still have to think about sometimes. (It's ERR-you-dite, right? I always want to say ERR-oo-dite.)

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