Misreading a word

There was a thread the other day about chips on cat flaps which I read as chips on flat caps!

I’m confused “….shoplifters instead of shoplifters” I read this twice, in case I was missing something or misreading!

Other than that, yes, I read too quickly sometimes and can misread things.

When Hubby was young, and growing up in the UK, he learned at school about a king named Cnut. The name was not spoken at school, and Hubby is dyslexic, we suspect. He promptly came home and told his mother they learned about King (rhymes with punt). My MIL was all, "You WHAT???"

My friends boyfriend was an amazing gardener.
Someone complimented him on a plant, and he told them it was a chlamydia.

I think OP meant shoplifters instead of shopfitters 😂

My dear departed dad was a well-read, intelligent man, but he always read trilogy as tri-o-logy! No matter how many times we gently corrected him, he always did it.

Just re-read my post - intended to write "shopfitters" - just shows one can mistype as well as mis-read!

I am dyslexic and when I was a child I had a book called "A Stick Doll's Diary" I always read as "A Sick Doll's Dairy."

As part of a job I had to write a letter about a man who had been in gaol for three years, I wrote that he had been in goal for three years.

My poor friend Louise Smith once received a postcard from me addressed to Louse Smith.

I know a couple of people who make the same mistake ViceVersa I think trio seems more like it should begin the word. I find myself misreading words more often as I get older and I read too quickly.

DH thought it would be interesting to take me to Castle Gird. This was apparently just outside Chalfont St Peter, and having lived nearby I was quite interested. Nope! He took me to a cattle grid!

It’s because the brain usually sees the first and last letters and fills the rest in without having to actually read it.

Long ago, reading Chalet School books I read Evadne as Evadane for a long time.

Out in an unfamiliar town and needing a toilet I saw a small building with TOILET on a sign outside. On closer inspection it said TO LET.

MickyD

It’s because the brain usually sees the first and last letters and fills the rest in without having to actually read it.

It only does that if that's the way it was taught to read. In other words, guesswork.

If correctly taught the brain interprets the letters in the word sequentially from left to right. Proven by eye movement and neurological research.

Les Dawson was good at deliberately
playing with words.

Remember Hysterical Rectum for Hysterectomy.!

My friends Husband was reading a menu and said "oh this sounds nice, the meringoo"
It was meringue.
Still makes me laugh years later

I always thought that one of the sisters in the 'What Katy Did' books was called Elise.

Turns out it was Elsie.

My son, when he was young, asked me once ' Mum, what's laughter? (rhymed to water). When I looked at him blankly he said 'It's the title of your book' which was The Laughter of Dead Kings. He'd come across daughter while reading but not laughter, of which much ensued. Another case is The Reading Centre (about learning to read) in Reading, just to confuse

Yes I have read it several times too and can't see what is different in the two words.

I remember as a girl reading portakabin as port tak a bin. It was split over 2 lines of the sentence. I still call it that.

what , reread your own comment

MissAdventure

My friends boyfriend was an amazing gardener.
Someone complimented him on a plant, and he told them it was a chlamydia.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ii thought blancmange was blank mag knee for many years. I never associated it with the custard style milk based desert 🙂

Not something I've read but 3 friends and myself went for a coffee this afternoon and I swear one ordered a cream tea - turned out to be a green tea! I did have jam & cream envy for a little while!