Language Stuff 2

For years, as a young person, I thought that there was a verb 'to misle'. I had it all conjugated in my mind. I misle, you misle, he/she misles, we misle, you misle, they misle. I'd even constructed tenses. They will misle. I've been misling. You will misle.

It took some time, and a look of utter incomprehension on the face of the first person I ever said this word aloud to, for me to re-examine this handy term and realise that I'd back-constructed it from reading the world 'misled' as a past participle.

Like most people who read a lot, I know many more words by sight than I actually use in conversation. The result can be some interesting gaffes. I remember how red my face was when my Year 12 Literature class was reading, aloud, the script of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'. Young, naive, but enthusiastic, I was doing my best to bring John Proctor to life, and when he had to stand up and bellow 'Whore!' I gave it everything, only for the whole class to dissolve in gusts of laughter because I pronounced it the same as 'War'.

I can only claim that at seventeen, it wasn't a word I'd ever spoken aloud. Maybe that said something about me ...

It was only a few years ago now after saying the word 'awry' as 'orreee' for all my 40+ years that my mother said, what is 'orree'? She couldn't stop laughing.
I just about died of embarrassment!

For years I thought 'stoic' was pronounced with one syllable, to rhyme with 'oik' ...

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