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"? !!!
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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 have just seen the word 'segue' on another thread and remember the first time I heard it spoken. I was quite shocked to hear it (correctly) pronounced 'segway'. Similarly, in my teens I used to say 'en-you-I' before I learned that ennui is pronounced 'on-wee'. I learned most of my vocabulary from books and didn't know how to properly pronounce many of the words I used until I was in my late teens or early twenties - and I expect there are some words that I still haven't cottoned on to. Have any words caught you out with their pronunciation?
(Or is it just me? 
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