segue pronunciation

Those are misplaced letters rather than mispronunciations though.

Ones I've heard: recodnise, anenome.

Ana, all Ulster folks seem to say 'fillums'. My son's partner and my GP both talk that way.

During a topic on the Egyptians a year 6 pupil asked me if I believed in green carnation.

Only last night my dear friend "Withit" told me that she had given her kitchen a thorough clean and it now looked "prestige" and she thought that her mother was getting a "chinnery" for Christmas. After a bit of questioning, I finally understood that she meant one of those outdoor heating things which I think are called "chimneas" , but could be wrong!

Oh heck, these don't really qualify, do they, as the thread is about mispronounciation! Sorry!

Slightly off piste, but when told to write out the words to O Come all ye Faithful, a 9 year old specki wrote "God and sinners wreck on siled". Mortifying. About the same era, when my Dad was tickling me I said, "stop it Dad, you get on my wick" (a phrase I'd picked up from the naughty boys at the riding stables I went to). My Dad hit the roof and banned me from the stables which nearly ruined my life at the time! I too was 'mysld' rather than' miss-led' and a Pennyloper and don't get me started on 'deodorant' - it took me ages to fathom that one out.

My Irish FIL always said fillums.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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. .

And another one; aegis = ee - jis.

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)

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

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!

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

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