My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."
I said it "chay-ous"
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Megan E. - Mar 17, 2004 7:45:03 am PST #1403 of 10002
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 7:46:02 am PST #1404 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I used to think "draught" was a totally different word than "draft."
Until I was about 18 or so. No, really.
Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2004 7:46:36 am PST #1405 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
cha-ose. Long O.
amych - Mar 17, 2004 7:48:48 am PST #1406 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I somehow managed to get "chaos" right, and still derive "chow-tic" from it.
Deena - Mar 17, 2004 7:49:54 am PST #1407 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
How funny. My embarrassing incident was fuh-KADE in 7th grade, and Greg's was chowse. It's nice to be in such good company.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 7:50:16 am PST #1408 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"misled" = meye-zzld. A word totally unrelated (in my head) to the past tense of "to mislead."
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 7:51:18 am PST #1409 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And then there's "epitome" (ep-i-tome) and "Penelope" (pen-e-lope).
Evil words.
amych - Mar 17, 2004 7:54:40 am PST #1410 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
"misled" = meye-zzld.
Silly girl. Don't you know it's pronounced "mizz-ld"?
Megan E. - Mar 17, 2004 7:55:43 am PST #1411 of 10002
I thought it was my-sled.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 7:57:56 am PST #1412 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Panache" (pan-a-shay) and "hors d'oeuvres" (not-a-clue) gave me trouble until I hit college. (I knew what hors d'oeuvres were, it just never occured to me that that unpronounceable word might be them.)
And because the firsts blog memes I encountered were those long lists of "My favorite color is... / my favorite song is... / etc," I assumed that "meme" was short for "mememememememe." It took several months for me to wonder if maybe this word "meme" that looked exactly like that other word "meme" (which I already knew) might, in fact, be that word.