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# WHAT THE FUCK.
Holy shit, you're right. I too, have been making this grievous error my whole life.
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:15, archived)
# My world has indeed been rocked.
and I now wonder what else I call by a "not-quite-right-but-nearly-there" name?
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:21, archived)
# as I posted on QOTW the other week
I thought dilemma was spelt "dilemna" for years
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:24, archived)
# I like pronouncing "picturesque" as "picture skew"
As it arouses me when people correct me.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:27, archived)
# I thought that was how it was pronounced for many years
as I'd only read it and never heard it spoken.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:29, archived)
# if we are doing "never heard it pronounced before"
As I was a precocious* little Chutney who had read a LOT of books by the time I was about 11. I was quite relived the first time I actually heard someone say "Debacle" It had bugged me for years!

*Read: Smug little know-it-all who might have benefited from a clip round the ear.
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:39, archived)
# and in other news...

I think I will have a Seat as my next car!
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:30, archived)
# Pictureskew is my favourite Cardámon
(I helped save b3ta! Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:36, archived)
# I always pronounced "awry" - or ree - in my head when I read it, yet used the word correctly in speech.
(I helped save b3ta! doog Don't read this., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:46, archived)
# Oh and segue always puzzled me when I read it too.
(I helped save b3ta! doog Don't read this., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:47, archived)
# i know a very posh girl who thought that when people were saying "in this day and age"
they were actually saying "in the stone age". She found out the truth when when of her lecturers picked it up in an essay she'd written.
(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:39, archived)
# ha ha ha
wonderful.
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 12:40, archived)