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Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:45 am
by Gario
I used to think beck and call was beckon call, due to the meaning of the word beckon.
And I used to think prima donna was pre-Madonna, thinking that it meant people who were around before Madonna was famous.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:46 am
by Tafdolphin
I used to pronounce sporadic, sprohdic. Still do every now and again.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:49 am
by Rax
This thread is a damp squid.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:52 am
by Barley
I was forever putting women on pedal stools.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:55 am
by KK
Raxicori wrote:This thread is a damp squid.
The amount of people that use this and continually get it wrong is unbelievable.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:56 am
by Foxhound
I can't think of any that I used to/still get wrong (though I'm sure there are several) but I know plenty of people who say 'should of' instead of 'should have'/'should've'. I also know some people who constantly say 'pacifically' instead of 'specifically'
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:57 am
by Saint of Killers
I used to think
can't be arsed was
can't be asked.
I once said it in class (
it's as though they can't be asked) and my teacher asked me to repeat myself. So I did. She looked over at another teacher who happened to be there and they had a quiet conversation on what the flip I was saying. A couple of girls asked me what I'd said and so I repeated it again. Nothing more was said and so I was left more than a little confused. Years later I realised my mistake and it still makes me chuckle and cringe in equal measure. And then, later still, I learned I actually had got it right and can't be arsed was a sweary version of what I'd said.
Teachers
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:58 am
by ~Earl Grey~
Gario wrote:I used to think beck and call was beckon call, due to the meaning of the word beckon.
And I used to think prima donna was pre-Madonna, thinking that it meant people who were around before Madonna was famous.
I did the prima donna one too. Also "pantomine" and "electricicty". At least I wasn't one of those wankers who say "skelinton".
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:59 am
by bear
Hyperbole.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:01 am
by ~Earl Grey~
Also, for years I thought it was a viewing "frustrum".
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:11 am
by OnlyShallow
I have a friend who used to think picturesque and grotesque were pronouced pictureskew and grottyskew.
Unfortunately when he told me this I adopted the habit too
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:16 am
by TigaSefi
I once said Grand Prick.. well how was I meant to know the french often leave the last letter off
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:28 am
by Lotus
Fizheuer Zieheuer wrote:bear wrote:Hyperbole.
I've never known how to pronounce hyperbole :<
High-per-bo-lee.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:39 am
by Bunni
Saint of Killers wrote:I used to think
can't be arsed was
can't be asked.
I once said it in class (
it's as though they can't be asked) and my teacher asked me to repeat myself. So I did. She looked over at another teacher who happened to be there and they had a quiet conversation on what the flip I was saying. A couple of girls asked me what I'd said and so I repeated it again. Nothing more was said and so I was left more than a little confused. Years later I realised my mistake and it still makes me chuckle and cringe in equal measure. And then, later still, I learned I actually had got it right and can't be arsed was a sweary version of what I'd said.
Teachers
This. Except there was little confused as I can talk properly.
People who "arks" for something. No, you can't. strawberry float off.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:39 am
by KK
Lotus wrote:Fizheuer Zieheuer wrote:bear wrote:Hyperbole.
I've never known how to pronounce hyperbole :<
High-per-bo-lee.
I prefer hyper-bowl.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:45 am
by Lotus
Bunni wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:I used to think
can't be arsed was
can't be asked.
I once said it in class (
it's as though they can't be asked) and my teacher asked me to repeat myself. So I did. She looked over at another teacher who happened to be there and they had a quiet conversation on what the flip I was saying. A couple of girls asked me what I'd said and so I repeated it again. Nothing more was said and so I was left more than a little confused. Years later I realised my mistake and it still makes me chuckle and cringe in equal measure. And then, later still, I learned I actually had got it right and can't be arsed was a sweary version of what I'd said.
Teachers
This. Except there was little confused as I can talk properly.
People who "arks" for something. No, you can't. strawberry float off.
Let me axe you this - do people really say arks? I've heard axe, which sounds stupid, but arks?
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:51 am
by Gario
Lotus wrote:Bunni wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:I used to think
can't be arsed was
can't be asked.
I once said it in class (
it's as though they can't be asked) and my teacher asked me to repeat myself. So I did. She looked over at another teacher who happened to be there and they had a quiet conversation on what the flip I was saying. A couple of girls asked me what I'd said and so I repeated it again. Nothing more was said and so I was left more than a little confused. Years later I realised my mistake and it still makes me chuckle and cringe in equal measure. And then, later still, I learned I actually had got it right and can't be arsed was a sweary version of what I'd said.
Teachers
This. Except there was little confused as I can talk properly.
People who "arks" for something. No, you can't. strawberry float off.
Let me axe you this - do people really say arks? I've heard axe, which sounds stupid, but arks?
It's a little unfair of you if you're referring to Afro-Caribbean people who say it that way.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:55 am
by Bunni
I doubt these neddy kids up here have caribbean heritage.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:10 pm
by hamm sandwich
One of my mates uses 'generally' as his main filler word which grates but it's worse when he uses it as a substitute for genuinely. The stories he tells about how he had a generally good time, or how it was generally the funniest thing he'd ever seen makes me wince.
Re: Words that you used to get wrong
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:13 pm
by Eighthours
My wife and I started watching Breaking Bad at the weekend, and she's proceeded to call it Breaking Back ever since.
