to think someone should know doggy dog makes no sense?

[Juells]

Heard someone (on TV) using this yesterday. "It's a doggy dog world". Why do people think this means anything?

Later (think it was on Antiques Road Trip) someone said they were thinking of changing tact.

@Vasya

I had only ever seen the word ballache written down and in my head it was pronounced ba-lash. Thankfully I never said it out loud and eventually the penny dropped

I can't find the original poster of this to tag but this might be my favourite thing EVER and I shall from now on be using ba-lash 😂

Ballache ba-lash. 🤣🤣 I'm going to steal this.
I once read out loud horizon the same way it sounds in horizontal. I was 8 and I'm still embarassed about it.
We used to think Burntisland was Burntiss land

Just remembered my lovely friend though Peugeot cars were "pew-gots" until we were in our late twenties 😂

With so much else going on in the world I really don't understand how people can get annoyed by words and phrases being said wrong if people genuinely don't know the original - I bet there are some these posters say wrong and don't realise!

Watching, I think the sad thing is that people DO read badly edited/proofed books. Which does nothing to challenge their (lack of) understanding of spelling etc. So they carry on reading them. Which encourages further authors/publishers to think they need not spend that much time or money on it... And on and on.

I work for a friend who's an independent author and he says the money he pays me is the best he spends. His readers actively make a point of telling him that one of the (many) things they like about his books is they're well edited and proofed.

I am reading a book at the moment and it has referred several times to 'mice pies' instead of 'mince pies'. It really spoilt my concentration as I kept wondering about how you would make a mice pie.

I cannot say 'anaesthesist' without a run up, and often need several attempts.

Oh God, me too. How DO you say it? I never know how many ts you say, or when to stop.

This is not really on topic, but I once thought I had spotted a hilarious proofreading oversight when I was reading a Stephen King book about a girl who got lost in the forest, when it referred to her getting bitten by "minges". But then it appeared again, and again, and I realised that that is what they call midges in America. Immature as I am, it still didn't stop me giggling every time the character was absentmindedly scratching her minge bites.

At a small church I used to go to, if the organist wasn’t able to come, the steward used to say we would have to sing archipelago. I always assumed she knew it was really a capella and was being amusing. Maybe I was wrong.

@DarlingNikita

A Niece th tist

Where 'th' is like 'think' and 'tist' rhymes with 'fist'.

Minge bites! This thread is a gift that keeps on giving.

@DarlingNikita I know of at least 1 anaesthetist who can't say it either so I wouldn't worry too much!

I cannot say 'anaesthesist' without a run up, and often need several attempts.

That might be because you're trying to put an 's' where there is actually a 't' (anaesthetist), Weezol?

Reallybadidea

SuperSara, that's the most helpful thing anyone's ever said to me on the subject. Thanks!

I know someone who says pacifically rather than specifically. Im sure she's misheard it somewhere rather than has a speech impediment.

Post on fb - 'i have no kwams' instead of qualms

Ah, I see someone else had the 'awry' problem as well. Now I'm wondering what the heck I was reading as a child that had words like awry and mishap. Victorian novels maybe? They sound like words PG Wodehouse might have used, as well.

My brother, as a child, read the word 'chaos' but pronounced it as 'chowse'. I remember my father taking some time to work out what he meaning to say.

I remember, as a child, making my teacher laugh when I read: “merely a trifle as “merrily a trifle” in The Lion, The Witch and the wardrobe.

We’re right off topic now

davros please may I join you on the "Sharp Intake of Breath at the Misuse of Decimate" bench?
Makes me shout at the telly every time.

@DarlingNikita

My friend who is one says "an-ees-tha-tist"

I have no idea if that's how most people say it though!

Sorry just saw @SuperSara said the same already

No worries, Curly, appreciate you helping

I'm on a few cat groups on FB and far too many people are trying to rehome their 'spade' pets.

I often say sayings wrongly because it amuses me, like casting nasturtiums and pismronunciation. Half of my conversation with DH is littered with stupid references to old sitcoms or Two Ronnies sketches. I love a malopropism but I do it intentionally.

With the reading Vs pronouncing thing, I didn't equate segue with 'segway' for ages. Perfectly fine with Hermione and hegemony. My friend got the piss taken out of her in a lesson for her 'Goat's foost' instead of Goethe's Foust. Pretty unfair really.

As a child, if I thanked my grandmother for something, she used to reply with San fairy Anne, I was well into adulthood, and long after her death when I worked it out.