How many of you have embarrassed yourselves by mispronouncing words you've learned from reading? You sound it out in your head and store it there until you have a chance to use it in conversation. When you finally do use it, you're faced with looks of total incomprehension, or worse, laughter. My worst ones were in Junior High. I've since learned to look up new words!

Mine were awry and misled. I thought they made perfect sense in context. As in, something had gone AW-ree (I think I linked it with the NASA term yaw, as in pitch, roll and yaw; something gone out of kilter) and MY-selled (akin to chiselled or cheated).

Anyway, I'm guessing many of you have had the same experience.

Care to share?