Originally Posted By: twosleepy
Originally Posted By: The Pook
Interesting word 'misled' - when I saw it written I used to think it was pronounced 'Migh-zuld' (as in miserly).



Pook! We are twin souls, LOL! Here are some others that stumped me, some well into my adulthood:

rendezvous: I read "ren-dez-vus" in my mind, and knew it had a synonym, "ron-day-voo", but I never put them together until I heard someone read aloud what I saw written... yikes!

miniseries: Okay, misled by the lack of a hypen, I read this as "min-IZ-er-ees". Don't ask!!! What was I thinking?!?!

emeritus: Lacking, again, the sound/symbol connection taken for granted with more common words, I saw this as "em-er-ITE-us", I suppose going from "dermatitis", or something similar.

I guess I have a weird combination of visual/audio thinking. :0)


Actually many older Tasmanians seems to pronounce emeritus the way you do.

A friend of mine used to pronounce 'awry' as OR-ee.