My brother's ex
genuinely thought that 'misled' was pronounced 'myzulled'.


What an utter spasmo, eh readers?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:21, 6 replies)

Actually have a friend who thought the same thing
it's extremely common with that and various other words, if you've only ever seen them written down and never really heard anyone say them. It's also fairly typical of autodidacts from families where nobody would ever use those kind of words. Another friend who's a sociologist points to it as a sign of class, marking a transition where children of working class parents make themselves into the middle class, but always have telltale traces of origin.

He always though Proust was pronounced 'Prowst'
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 23:53, closed)

I had one of those
fortunately the first time I used "awry" in a sentence and pronounced it "aury" the only audience was my parents, who corrected me once they'd stopped laughing and pointing.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 8:25, closed)

*laughs*
*points*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 11:02, closed)

Along with Sye-rup pudding.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:01, closed)

This was in a book
How Green was my Valley well it were on the TV and the character got laughed at in the class when he was reading out loud and made the same mistake.

Book is How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn and TV was in 1975 must have been a repeat I saw.
(Bernardate, Sat 20 Mar 2010, 11:33, closed)

Massive click for....
What an utter spasmo, eh readers.
(ruud316, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:08, closed)