Misreading a word

watermeadow

Looking out at the garden I meant hollyhocks but said cauliflowers!

Someone asked me what i might wear for a sort of party.
I don't know where it came from, but i said "Oh, I'll probably just wear a pair of sandwiches"

Secondwind

I was mortified when I was told, after reading out a trivial pursuit question, that Persephone wasn’t actually pronounced Percy-phone.

We had a girl called Hermione in our class and one of our teachers always called her Hermy-1. We never worked out if this was deliberate or ignorance and she never dared say anything because the teacher was very fierce.

Looking out at the garden I meant hollyhocks but said cauliflowers!

On my way home from work I used to go past a big building with PAYAN TAKI in large letters along the top of the building. I thought it was an Asian company. Years later I realised it was a cash and carry called PAY AND TAKE.

On my route to work I passed a sign pointing down a lane where there were 'Trousers For Sale from £25000'

I thought that was unfeasibly expensive, until I realised it was a camping/caravan sales place and the sign was for 'tourers'.

agnurse

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???"

This reminds me of sevem year old me coming home from Brownies and telling Mummy that we had been hearing about boggarts. Perhaps because English was not her native language and she did not know this word, Mummy went off the deep end, me never, never to say that word again, and that it certainly could not be what Brown Owl had said-

I was deeply mystified and felt very ill-done to being told off like that. It was many years later before I realised what my mother thought I had said.

Although how she could hear bugger for boggart I do not know!

I was mortified when I was told, after reading out a trivial pursuit question, that Persephone wasn’t actually pronounced Percy-phone.

As a child I thought Enid Blyton was Gnuid Bluton. I think it was the way she signed her name.

Oh, i never knew that!

I only recently discovered that the word "segue" was pronounced segway. I knew the meaning, but always said in my head as "sayg" as I assumed it was a French word! I hadn't connected the word with the Segway vehicle.

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!

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

MissAdventure

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

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

what , reread your own comment

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.

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

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

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

Turns out it was Elsie.

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

Les Dawson was good at deliberately
playing with words.

Remember Hysterical Rectum for Hysterectomy.!

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.

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.

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

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