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I was in a settlement conference involving a disciplinary hearing, when an attorney for the opponent said my client should be severely punished because he had "my-zild" her client. I asked what the heck does "my-zild" mean??! She spelled it for me. She somehow made it all the through school, college and law school thinking that someone being MISLED was really suffering!

#1: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Oct 2, 2025 [SPOILER]

Yes, unfortunately this is a true story.

When I said "It's misled", I've never seen anyone so embarrassed in my life before or since.

Haha! I'm sure she wy-ZED up after that.

A friend of mine, celebrating his 21st birthday at a restaurant ordered a glass of peanut newer.

I had to say that out loud before I got it.

I have heard my-zild before, though it was intentional. Decades ago the Ph.D. husband of our couple friends next door would say it as a joke, but he noticed that if he said it in front of people who didn't know him well it embarrassed his wife, so to mess with her he picked other words to mangle with a straight face. There were several, but the one I remember now was widnow in place of window.

My co-worker was looking at a fancy ladies underwear magazine. When asked what he was doing, he said he was shopping for some new ling-grr-eee for his wife. I think it should be pronounced that way. It's easier to spell.

whoops!

These are all hilarious!

This was me up to age about 14 - although my pronunciation was mistled.

Comes of reading more than listening!

So what is a college education worth these days? Of course, my husband made it through college thinking "awry" was pronounced "AW-ree."

That reminds me of how authors bafflingly sometimes said that one thing "bellied" another, and I couldn't figure out why they were talking about bellies. Eventually I realized that the word they were using was "belied" as in "be-lie" -- to show that something is a lie. Figuring out what all that belly-ing was about was a real "a-ha" moment for me.

But ouch about this one! That poor lawyer must have been so embarrassed!!!

Jan spoke beautiful English that absolutely sounded like it was his first language, but actually his first language was German. He was born here in Michigan to German-speaking parents, so he heard a lot of English, starting when he was very young, especially once his older sibs started attending schools. But his German roots occasionally showed up in his English, like for example he usually called salad "lettuce" and he always pronounced Boulevard as "boo-lay-VAHD."

OMG

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