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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being a reader more than a talker, I grew up mispronouncing several common words based on their phonetic spelling.  Misled (MYzled), Infrared (InFRAIRed), etc.[/quote]

I proudly stood up to do a book report in 8th grade, and pronounced a quote with the word chaos as "chah- oss" and the teacher laughed and called me out.

I also had only ever read the word sonofabitch, and didn't really know it was 3 words ... So I got really angry at my cousin at a family reunion and yelled YOU SAH-NOFFFFA-BITCH! I had no clue it was son- of - a - bitch.[/quote]

Ha!  I remember when we were doing the dreaded reading aloud in school and it was my turn, I pronounced chaos as "cha-hos" and I legit never lived that down.  That was in 5th grade and kids still remembered when I graduated high school.  One of the activities leading up to graduation was that the class gave fun superlatives/nicknames to each other.  We then used puffy paint to make shirts with the superlative on it and wore those to our graduation night party.  Mine had my lucky number 13 on it and CHA-HOS in big puffy letter paint.[/quote]

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