Jon: "Tis a Sad Sad Day for Duke Undergrads"
I found out today that I've been thinking the same word wrong for 20 years. Those who have been informed of my magenta/magneta problem will not be surprised by this. (MAGNET-A! IT'S A COLOR!)
Misled? Apparently that's pronounced "mis-led", as in led wrongly. Not "misseld". "Mis-led". How many class readings must I inadvertently embarrassed myself in?
However, I am still not as bad as the girl who said "Goath" instead of Goethe ("Goe-te") during her paper presentation yesterday. Look, guys, I know we don't all speak German, but if you're gonna be reading it out loud in front of 20 people...
Ok, right, I have like 4 research papers and an internship app due in the next 5 days. I'm out.
posted by Allison @ 11:07 PM
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most of my fellow students in high school mispronounced shit when reading out loud.
i thought the whole reading out loud thing was dumb because i'd get too bored and just read ahead twenty pages.
I said "chowse" for chaos once while reading in 8th grade.
Its not that I hadn't heard the word chaos before, I just hadn't seen it spelled.
Maybe they should just abolish those words, since so many smart people get them wrong.
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