XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage
From: larry@invalid.ca

On 2024-07-29 09:39, Rich Ulrich wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:40:26 +0100, Phil 
> wrote:
>
>> On 29/07/2024 12:25, Peter Moylan wrote:
>>> On 29/07/24 19:25, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:08:29 +1000, Peter Moylan 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There used to be a low-calorie Australian beer called Dietale. My
>>>>> uncles used to pronounce it as if it were an Italian word.
>>>>
>>>> So did I when I first saw it.
>>>>
>>>> I've discovered that "biopic" is pronounced "BI-o-pic", but I still
>>>> tend to pronounce it as "bi-Opic".
>>>
>>> So do I. So, I imagine, do many people, because the word looks as if
>>> it's supposed tp rhyme with myopic.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I'm one of those many. I also firmly believe it's possible to misle
>> people, having encountered 'misled' in print at a tender age. A poster
>> here a while back also brought us 'skipants'.
>>
>> I have the same confusion, in my head, with Dutch 'tegelijk', which I'm
>> prone to think rhymes with 'degelijk'.
>
> Some years ago, aue featured various offerings of misling spellings,
> and we also reported cases of mishy-phenation.  The cow-orker was
> a favorite example of the latter.  I offered an example I ran into in
> the wild, mans-laughter.

The first one I ran into in the wild was the-rapist.

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