Is there a word you always, always misread?

There’s one I miswrite: ever since I started playing the ACCORDION, I can no longer write ACCORDING.

“Accordion to Darwin…”

Sorry

Cacophony, and efficacy. I know what they mean, I just mispronounce them.

Yes, when I was president, some people keep telling me “Nucular” should be “nuclear”-?!
I mean, what school deed they attended in before, huh-? Heh, heh, hehhh…

For some reason, whenever I look at the word “foliage” I misread it as “foilage,” and even pronounce it that way sometimes by mistake.

De Broglie… I know its meant to be said “De Broy” but can’t help myself and always say it as it’s written instead :)

A lot of fluther usernames
AugustIan -> AugustLan
poisonedantidote -> poisonantidote
etc.

@PhiNotPi Augustlan is AugustLan…it’s a lowercase L.

This probably wont count, but when I see “Clarissa”, I alwas think “assiralc”. Mainly because of the Nicolodeon TV show Clarissa Explains It All, and it’s intro.

Other than that, only Money and Monkey.

@Fly I’ve seen it spelt with a lowercase i before, so I thought it was an uppercase i. Why do they make them so similar?

@PhiNotPi I can easily see why people would think that it is spelled with an i because the uppercase I and lowercase l do look identical.

Uniform>Uninformed.

Carbs. I get card 90% of the times. THough I don’t get it why my eyes get blurry only here.

When I was a kid I asked my mother why no giggling was allowed. It was painted on the pavement somewhere. Only what it actually said was, no cycling. Stupid boy!

No, Funny @ucme!

When my son was about 5 he found a bumper sticker that read, “I’d rather be online.” He stuck it to his door. After about a week I told him I’d have to take it down because the glue would deface the door.
He said, “Nooooo! It says “I’d rather be alone!”
I explained what it really said and gave it to him…about an hour late I found it stuck to our computer. : ) I didn’t think he even knew what “on line” meant and I hadn’t explained it to him!

It’s completely childish (my mind owns acreage in the gutter), but I giggle every time I see “penal code”. I know exactly what it really means, but it just makes me think of some secret code among penises.

I do too @WillWorkForChocolate! I do too. : ) Same with Pina Colada!

I know what enervating means, but in my mind I see energizer bunny.

I see enervating as getting on my nerves!

Surprise, vs surprize.

Live vs Life mix those up a lot for some reason.

Arboretum

Voilà. When I was a kid and reading books intended for adults, I couldn’t understand why everyone was exclaiming about a musical instrument (viola!), and I still pronounce it wrong in my head. I’ve even spelled it ‘viola’ on occasion.

I read the ENTIRE Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series (or for your devotees, the ‘Increasingly Inaccurately named Trilogy”). And I thought his name was Ford “PERFECT”. It wasn’t until years later, when I watched the movie and they said his name out loud that I realized it was actually PREFECT. WTF!! That word appeared thousands of times in those books, and I NEVER noticed. I ran to grab a copy of the book and flipped into the first few pages, and there it was, sure enough, it was Ford Prefect all along. The brain is amazing…... By the way, the movie sucked don’t waste your time.

I was reading a book, came across a word that I’ve read a thousand times but have never said aloud, thought about this question, looked at the word carefully—and realized that I have been pronouncing it wrong in my head for the last gazillion years!....“Armistice” In my head I say “Arm-nis-tice.”
So, how DO you pronounce it, anyway? “Arm-is-tice”? That just doesn’t sound right! There’s a ‘n’ in there somewhere, isn’t there?....?...?

@Dutchess_III Ar.mi.stice.

Ar.mi.stice. Ar.mi.stice. Ar.mi.stice. Ar.mi.stice. Ar.mi.stice. Ar.mi.stice. Would that be a long i or a short i? Like “ice’ or ‘it’? By the laws of grammar (‘i consonant e) it should be ‘ice’ but I’ll bet it isn’t.

@Dutchess_III Like it. But if you click on the link, it has audio pronunciation for you.

I looked for the audio, but not hard enough I guess.
Sigh. Yet another word that breaks the rules of vocabulary!
I came across that word today in a book I just started reading. I pronounced it 10 times! : ) My husband is like, “What are you muttering about over there?”
“ARMISTICE!!” I yelled! He just shook his head. He does that a lot around me.

I dont’ have a particular word that I misread, but I am really lazy with strange or foreign names when I read. I rarely take the time to think about how to pronounce them, but instead shorten or simplify them into something that’s easier for me. Like Hermoine in Harry Potter – before the movie, I would pronounce it as Her Moan in my head because I had never heard the name before. It can be embarassing when you forget you’ve made an adjustment like that and then you go to talk about the book with someone and you have all the names slightly wrong. It makes you sound “special.”

@gabby94805 Actually, a lot of people had problems with Hermione, and had never heard it before. So many, in fact, that it was the reason for Rowling inserting the “Her-my-oh-nee” scene with Viktor Krum at the Yule Ball in the fourth book.

Corn, Hermione, chores, sputtle, and articulate.

@blueberry_kid What do you read corn as being?

@Aethelflaed On the computer, I frequently see it as “com” at first. I’m wondering what the hell sputtle is.

@augustlan I think sputtle is some sort of skittles gone bad….?

^^ lol

Sputtle: It is skittles gone bad.

Corn: I always see it as porn. (don’t laugh!!!:) )

Will you be upset if I laughed? ^^ It’s really funny. I can’t stop laughing. You must excuse me :))