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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]
In my high school speech class, we were all assigned a teacher to interview and then we had to give a biographical speech about the teacher to our class. One girl told the class that her assigned teacher’s father had “frickently” died. After giving our speech, we had to leave the classroom for a few minutes to allow the speech teacher and the rest of the class a chance to discuss our speech and craft some compliments and constructive feedback. When this girl left the room, everyone was trying to guess what “frickently died” meant. The conclusion we reached was that the teacher’s father must have recently died, the girl was confusing the word “frequently” with the word “recently,” and that she was also mispronouncing “frequently.” None of this would have raised an eyebrow if she was not a native English speaker, but English was the only language she spoke.[/quote]

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