to think someone should know doggy dog makes no sense?

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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.

Were they Inverness?

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

My mate just says he's a gas doc

I always read misled as my-zuld. And lapel as lay-pul. I know they’re wrong but can’t help myself.

You're welcome @DarlingNikita

I can't stop seeing these now...across MN in the last day or so I've seen "get down to brass tax" (poster may have been being witty given the topic at the time) and "suffers from serration anxiety".

Seen on FB - "I'm sick to DEAF of people."

Personally I can't say "bureaucracy" without a run up. I invariably switch to politics.

I also once pronounced rival "rivval" when reading something aloud to DM, and I wasn't allowed to forget it for 30 years.

Didn't I hear Simon Cowell say "hyperbole" incorrectly recently? I always thought it was hyper-bowl myself until MN, but I would never have the courage to actually SAY hy-per-bollee as I doubt anyone would know what I was saying anyway.

As for why anyone would use the word epitome in normal conversation, my FIL does. Because he is the epitome of a wanker.

LazyFace, I take your 'spade' and give you 'spaded' 🙄

I always read misled as my-zuld.

oh yes, that's another one. Once it's gone into your brain in one way, it can't be unseated.

I thought misled was pronounced "mizzled", which is a slight variation. I only realised my error when I heard the song Misled by Celine Dion, gawd bless 'er.

My mum is regularly grumbling about people saying ‘unchartered waters’, not sure where she keeps coming across it.

We play parcel parcel, but only since dd mispronounced it as a toddler. Now I’m worried people ok me seriously.

I’ve always struggled with mezzanine, for some reason I need to say (I work in a building with one, it happens a lot).

I once worked with someone who wanted to be pacific and thought we were in a vicious triangle.

Sorry, I need to say metzanine

My lovely and clever DD goes to "he-kate's bar whereas I would imbibe at Heh-cat-ees" bar (Hecates).

I do think the loss of teaching Latin has had a huge knock-on effect. I do judge poor pronunciation- it smacks of simply not paying attention, a general dumbing down of the media, and the appalling state of our education system.

Mind you, I was mortified when in my first publishing job a lifetime ago I uttered the word "furore" as "few-roar", and was corrected in no uncertain terms (fuh-roar-ree)

She could "still smell his colon on the pillow"
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What about snoop?

fuzzypuffling we're a club of two so far! I was very impressed when they got it right on Doctor Who. The Master ordered the decimation of the earth's population and that is what they did. I wonder if it's got confused with devastation somewhere along the way?
I don't think it's acceptable to say that people shouldn't be blamed (or mocked) as they don't come across the correct forms of sayings and words. None of us knew any words once, we all had to learn!

I didn't know that about decimate and looked it up... How horrible

Oh yes, people writing "he was just really viscous" instead of "vicious". It's probably the curse of autocorrect again, but it makes me think of all these semi-liquid DHs sloshing about the place and leaving an oily film behind them.

I used to work with someone who got epitomise and typify muddled and would say epitifies instead. As a proofreader with an interest in language development this intrigues and horrifies me at the same time. I've just googled it and it's not just her, either.

I like a hybrid word used in jest naturally!

No, no, no, when I read it, misled is mizzled. And legend is leg-end.

I recently read a post about hoping someone got their "just deserves"

One that irritates me is when people haven't "stepped foot" outside all day.

In a lot of books a criminal has been "riffling" through stuff. I'd have thought it was rifling as rifle only has one f.

My mum told me how she'd travelled to my house and just 'poodled along.' I asked out of curiosity if she knew it was really 'pootled', as I wasn't sure whether she was just being silly. She didn't - and she's 63! You'd think someone would have corrected her over the years!

davros Club of two. Perfect. They can't decimate us! (Unless they chop off half a leg or something)

I'd be decimated

When I was a child there was a song I knew as sung by Billy Connelly about wearing your wellies. Perhaps it was his accent but I always heard it as 'you'd be in the hospital or in for Marie' I just took it as Marie being a grumpy aunt or something and you'd be in for it, as in in trouble, if you didn't wear them. Heard the song on Katie Morag on CBeebies the other day and the penny finally dropped, aged nearly 40, that the word is infirmary and that Marie doesn't exist . This thread has just reminded me!