Until about a year ago I thought the word "misled" was pronounced like "mistle-d" (as in 'mistletoe'). It was the past tense of the verb "to misle". I am not sure how the lightning of truth finally struck and I realized it was mis-LED.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- When my dad was little he thought that mistletoe was some kind of aircraft.— xoxo
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- I used to believe that the word 'circumstances' was pronounced 'circus dancers'.— Mel
- When i first saw the word "Czech" somewhere, i pronounced it "siz-ETCH" in my head — Pachisu
- "Christmas time
mistletoe and brine..."— Santa Puncher