segue pronunciation

When I was a child I loved "school stories" where the girls had names like Phoebe - I mentally pronounded that foe-eeb for years!!

I disgraced myself at an advance age by referring to the Cotton Easter in our front garden and, until quite recently, firmly believed there were two separate places Millguy and Milngavie. As to 'seque' I don't even know what it means.

I read lots of 'school stories' too and I thought Penelope was pronounced Penny lope!

I thought 'picturesque' was pronounced 'picture-skew' when I first read it a a child!

Misled - used to pronounce is as one might tickled - difficult to describe the mispronunciation in words!

Ana me to with regard to picture skew!

I also remember walking past a house for sale, where the board said "Apply within" and thinking it applely within, as in "oh how nice, they have apple trees"

Another one in the same vein was my darling Jack, helping with the shopping when quite youg and asking "Is this wine for boys?" I said "No darling, it's for mummies and daddies" He replied, " Then why does it say on the lable "serve child"? !!!

I'm another Penny Loper! But my oldest one is VeeHickle (vehicle) from when I first started reading (saw it on a road sign). My dad called a road in Leeds 'Gipton Appricotch'. He used to cycle past it on his way to school. Always thoght it was an odd name for a street. Then one day, as na adult, he read 'Approach'.

And then there's Beller Offen – otherwise known as the Greek Bellerophon – Bellerophon and Pegasus

Oh, the damn typos up there ^^^! if only we had an edit function!

I was amazed to find out the correct pronunciation for the surname Featherstonehaugh was actually Fanshaw, and that the place name Cholmondely is actually Chumley!

number , I'm quite proud of the fact that I knew that!

My DS was once stopped in London by an australian trying to get to Loogabarooga
(Loughborough)
I once struck up a conversation with my late ex step FIL , a keen punter on the gee gees, about the San Lejerrr - as a cockney he was highly amused at my fancy French pronounciation of this classic race (St Leger)

And another one; aegis = ee - jis.

I used to have the Dandy comic when I was about 7, and when Desperate Dan said that he was determined to do something, I read it out as 'deetermynd'.
Daphne Broon from the Sunday Post (Granny23 and Anno will know her) was Dafeen Broon. .

I'm another "misled" misreader. Also miniseries pronounced as miseries, but with "in" inserted, and accentuated on the second "i".

My DD to this day still refers to an orangutan as an orange utan.

This was not by me, but by a sales assistant. We spent some time choosing a bed-settee out of hundreds, watched at a short distance by a young salesman with an eye on his commission. When we finally picked out one upholstered in a fabric printed with Impressionist flowers, labelled "Cezanne" and beckoned him over, he exclaimed "Oh! so you have chosen the Kerzaney"

Talented chap, that Kerzaney.

All my former in-laws called a photo album an 'albun' and a pantomime was a 'pantomine'....

A family friend used to refer to the chimbley (chimney) and also he had a sustificate (certificate)!!

The one I remember feeling terribly embarrassed about was 'misso ji nist' for 'misogynist'. I'd felt very proud of having discovered the world, and then horribly deflated when I mis-pronounced it - in an English lesson at school

I used to read Girl magazine when I was about seven and thought the character Belle of the Ballet was Belly of the Ball-ett.

I used to wonder why labels on squash bottles instructed "dilute to taste" when it was so much stronger if you didn't add water.

I used to read 'awry' as oorree, and was also a Penny lope person. [gin]

york did your friend come from Norfolk? Chimbleys and sustifcates are common around here and people go to the cinema to see fillums.

when, it was probably the gin talking! Ho Ho Ho