Mispronouncing Words

[Cloverjo]

I’ve been reading a funny thread on Twitter where intelligent, book-loving adults realise they’ve been misreading or mispronouncing words.
My favourite was the guy whose mum pronounced ‘unstable’ to rhyme with Dunstable.

I’ll admit to mine. I was fairly well into adulthood when I realised that ‘banal’ doesn’t rhyme with ‘anal’.

Anyone got any more?

[Mexican18]

Hyperbole.
Antimony.

[Jackdaw33]

There used to be a brand of gin called White Satin. A woman I knew always pronounced it White Satan.

[Atheist]

I love Albert Steptoe's mispronunciations when he was rehearsing an am-dram play with Harold.
misled (mizzled)
Polo ponies (poloponnies)

[sanmac]

I used to think that "Penelope" rhymed with "envelope".

[Old_Geezer]

I still have words I've looked up time and again, and still can't pronounce instinctively but need to concentrate, recall, and say deliberately.

[The Builder]

Planning his garden planting, a friend mentioned he was going to plant "cotton-easters".

Apparently they were "cotoneasters" :o)

[Spicerack]

Same as Albert. :-(

[Jackdaw33]

My great aunt used to poronounce 'registered' as 'red-chested'.

[Mamyalynne]

My Mum's pizza was always 'pitsa' and her lasagne was 'lasange'.

[Ken4155]

I'm almost blushing in shame as I type this. Many years ago, I read a book called Willard in which the title character had a pet rat named Socrates. I was almost half way through this book when I realised the name was not pronounced so crates (I had been thinking all along what a stupid name it was) but Socrates, after the Greek philosopher. Now I am blushing :-(/

[Jackdaw33]

Pitsa, with a long i (ee) is right, surely

[Ken4155]

On another occasion, I proudly boasted to my mates that I had just bought the newly released Who album, The Who Live At Leeds. Unfortunately, I said 'Live' as in give. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me when my mates - amid bouts of laughter - explained my error.

[lankeela]

As a child I had a picture book with the story of the man who took something out of a lion's foot - I always called it Androclaws and the Lion and it was years later when I found out it was Androcles and the Lion.

[The Builder]

I know I've mentioned this before, but Mamya has reminded me of my grandmother from Rochdale.
She always had her house painted in "mongolia".

[bhg481]

Not quite the same thing but I always read "Shopfitters" as "Shoplifters".

[jennyjoan]

My mother while reading a book asked me what did bed-raggled mean - it was of course bedraggled

[Mamyalynne]

No long 'ee' Jack - pit as in a cherry pit or a mne.

One of mine was the name Hermione, as a child I always said 'Her me 1'.

[elliemay1]

My Mum used to pronounce 'condensation' as 'condescention'

[bednobs]

chagrin - I still don't know how it's ppronounced chay-grin sha-GRIN

[Ken4155]

Some common mispronunciations I've heard used by adults;

Chimley
Hospickal
Amblance
Vigenar
Chip Chop
Hearst
Creematorium
Febuary