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Lirael

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I just came across this neat little article.

Have you ever discovered that you've been doing something wrong for your entire life? Did you pronounce a word incorrectly for years then discover during an awkward conversation that it was in fact 'said like this'?

Tell us about your experiences!

The one that comes to mind first is Carlisle. My parents used to talk about the place frequently, but when I read the name on paper, I thought it was pronounced 'Car-lizz-le'. The 's' is silent; it's 'Car-lial.'

Several times, I have misheard lyrics or, when uncertain about the lyrics, have filled in blanks with the words which are closest to what I've heard. One example is from Eyes on Me, Final Fantasy VIII. I used to think the line 'Darling so there you are with that look on your face' was 'Darling so there you are with pelican on your face...' It made absolutely no sense to me. I thought it had been lost in translation or something. :lew:

I used to think 'yeah' was spelt 'yegh.' People made fun of me for this for years!

I learnt about 3 years ago that eggs continue to cook in the pan after you turn off the heat. :lew: You don't even need to keep the heat on after scrambled eggs start cooking. The texture is usually better when you cook them over a hot pan, with the hob itself turned off.

Around the age of 12, I learnt that mould on cheese spreads throughout the chunk, even if it only appears in once place. The spores may be invisible, but they are present throughout and the entire piece is thus toxic.

Speaking of mould, I was rather shocked last week when my mum told me that eating from a loaf of bread which has ANY mould on it causes thrush... I am not sure whether this is true or not. :hmmm: My mum exaggerates to the extreme. ;)
 
I'm driving wrong. I keep crashing

Around the age of 12, I learnt that mould on cheese spreads throughout the chunk, even if it only appears in once place. The spores may be invisible, but they are present throughout and the entire piece is thus toxic.
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WHAT
 
Being Scottish and especially an Aberdonian where our dialect is very different from the rest of the country. We speak in the old Doric dialect so everyone in the world might say wer saying it wrong hahah. But in slightly more seriousness there is a word which up until probably about i dunno...8 months ago i found out i was spelling wrong and pronouncing wrong. Even though i speak Doric. ''Fit like en min hows it gahn iday loon? Deein ahrite?'' etc.

That word would be. ''probably'' I always thought it was spelt and pronounced ''probadly'' I think it was actually Kylie Loki Laufeyson from this site who repped me saying something like. ''Theres no d in probably :andry:'' And i was like wtf you talking about woman!!! Jumped onto the ole Google dictionary saying to myself. Il show you that im spelling this the right.......oh :| Its such a normal word too hahahaha. So i felt like a bit of a tit knowing ive 'probadly' been saying this most of my adult life. I assume i knew the right way to say it when i was younger and just got confused in my old days.

I have to say though Vin Venture that pelican line is hilarious hahaha :wacky:

Its definitely a fact that theres song lyrics ive never been able to quite get without looking them up online first. Usually after getting bored of having to mutter some word that isnt actually a word in place of it. Some singers are just so hard to understand though.
 
Vin Venture said:
Several times, I have misheard lyrics or, when uncertain about the lyrics, have filled in blanks with the words which are closest to what I've heard. One example is from Eyes on Me, Final Fantasy VIII. I used to think the line 'Darling so there you are with that look on your face' was 'Darling so there you are with pelican on your face...' It made absolutely no sense to me. I thought it had been lost in translation or something. :lew:
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OK, I need to delete that song off my iTunes, because now I'm never going to be able to listen to it without cracking a rib from laughing :rofl:

I've had a few song lyrics misheard, as well...none as disasterrific as that, though. xD

When I was younger, and it was on the news that Hong Kong was given back to China, I interpreted this quite literally: I thought part of the UK had been detached and shipped back to wherever China was, on boats. I think it took me maybe five or six years to realize it was impossible to float a landmass across the ocean. I also used to believe that Japan was somewhere in North America. I asked a friend to point it out to me on a globe, and she pointed at somewhere in North America...and I believed her.

It also took me years to pronounce "manga", "gross" and "Pokemon" properly. When people told me how "manga" was actually pronounced, I didn't believe them - and I still find myself reading it as it's written - and I used to get into fights at school over how "Pokemon" was pronounced. I used to annoy my father no end with the way I pronounced classical composers, as well: Beethoven was "Beeth Oven", Chopin was "Choppin" and Mozart was "Mozheart".
 
"Albeit" is not pronounced as "al-bite", much to my chagrin, but instead as "al-be-it". It took me nearly all through my teenage years before I finally worked that one out, as previously due to my German habits of whenever I see the e and i next to each other in that order, I naturally always pronounce it that way. Meanwhile, I've had my battles with the word "hyperbole". Imagine my surprise when I realised two years ago that it should be "hy-puhh-bow-lee" and not "hyper-bowl". And when I was younger, I kept thinking that our daft transatlantic cousins in America were just a bunch of idiots with the horrific quantities of words in the English dictionary like "moustache", "colosseum" and "neighbour" misspelt. This was before I realised that there is such a thing as American English, though I am still half-certain that I'm not wrong with what I thought. :awesome:

I can't really think of what else actually. I know I've flashed headlights on my car before to signal some guy to pull out of a junction, as well as wave pedestrians over to cross the road without considering if there is an incoming car coming the other way, which are apparently what I shouldn't be doing. Why do it anyway? Well, it's because virtually every driver does it and break bits of the highway code. I just pick up their habits.

And mundanely, I've been peeling bananas incorrectly all this time. I've been doing it from the stem downwards instead of the other way, which supposedly is not what your average monkey does and it just makes the banana all mushy and bruised.

I do have another thing in mind that I've been doing wrong for years, but errm uhh, yeah, I won't go into detail about it. :wacky: Apparently it's front to back and avoid using soaps and washes.
 
I do a lot of things wrong but when it comes to actually remembering them all to write down... it just seems to slip my mind :wacky:

I think getting words wrong in lyrics is very common though, then you look up the lyric online and you're like "ohhhhhh it all makes sense now"

I used to listen to that 'All star" song a lot by who the fuck knows and there is one line "She was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead" and i used to mistake it for "She was looking kinda dumb with her finger up her bum..." :hmmm: I was very young though.

I used to be one of those retards who said 'Pacific' instead of 'specific' but I've wised up to that now :ahmed:

I'll Probadly think of more later :ohoho:
 
"Albeit" is not pronounced as "al-bite", much to my chagrin, but instead as "al-be-it".
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Same here. I also pronounced epitome as "epi-tome" instead of "epi-toe-me".
I cannot tie shoelaces correctly. My sister taught me to tie them in bunny ears as a child and I have never been able to grasp the "proper" way to do it.
I am also unable to use a knife and fork correctly. I hold my fork with the inward curve facing me, instead of the outward curve (basically like a spade). This was pointed out to me at a dinner party and I was quite taken aback (and embarrassed!). I attempted to learn but after 20-something years of using your fork a certain way you can't unlearn it easily (same with the shoelaces).
So yeah I'm a bit of a derp.
 
car-lizzle is an absolutely acceptable pronunciation. it shows you're down with the younger gen. us of the younger gen refer to ourselves often as lizzlians.

i can't think of anything off the top of my head (because i've always been pretty damn perfect) but my mate used to think that the ONLY way off putting out a fire was to put ice on it. his reasoning was because ice pokémon are strong against fire pokémon. he thought water made all fires worse.
 
Aahah unbelievable. Well off the top of my head I can only think of me pronouncing a certain word in portuguese written as "estômago" I would say "estôgamo". Also I used to believe that water would stop your digestion. It turns out it is temperature variation and not water itself! But blame that on my family XD thank god for biology classes.
 
Well, I make lots of mistakes when writing in english (because I don't dare to speak in english), but it is not my first language, so I think it's alright for awhile. And I also kept playing guitar with my own technique, but I think it's not really wrong afterall.
 
Lyrics are always the best to fail at.

I remember when I first heard Ashley Tisdale's song "Be Good To Me". I thought the line "I don't ask for much, all I want is love" sounded like "I don't ask for much, I don't want to be a slut". I just sort of accepted that maybe she turned out to be one of those Disney stars. But I guess the song was actually Disney, so.
 
I used to think that December was spelled and said as " Dickcember " :ffs:
 
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