Mispronouncing Words

Cloverjo | 13:19 Wed 22nd Jul 2020 | ChatterBank

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I’ve been reading a funny thread on Twitter where intelligent, book-loving adults realise they’ve been misreading or mispronouncing words.
My favourite was the guy whose mum pronounced ‘unstable’ to rhyme with Dunstable.

I’ll admit to mine. I was fairly well into adulthood when I realised that ‘banal’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘anal’.

Anyone got any more?

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That reference to Goethe reminds me of the old (reverse) Irish joke. Paddy goes for a job on the building site. Smug English foreman says, "OK providing you can tell me the difference between a girder and a joist". "That's easy", says Paddy, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses".

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maggiebee

Remember many years ago reading the book "Jean in the Morning". One of wee Jean's quotes was "why is it when we say prayers at school we say Our Father Wishart in Heaven when my dad's name is Smith." Always stuck with me.

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