I used to think "draught" was a totally different word than "draft."
Until I was about 18 or so. No, really.
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
'War Stories'
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."
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 7:46:02 am PST #1404 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2004 7:59:17 am PST #1413 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
amych is right. I misle, you misle, he misles.
Didn't get clear of that one until University. At which point I mentioned it to my sister who was also chagrined, because she'd be doing the same thing.
Which reminds me -- is "ogle" really pronounce ogg-le? In the UK too?
t /conversation #7