Reply #4: Bonnie, I'm falling off my chair! [View All]

[PinkTiger]

It also reminds me of one of my favorite stories, that I tell my students:
When I was young and a precocious reader of books beyond my age level (grade school) I ran across this word: "misled."
I immediately pronounced it, in my head, as "Missiled."
And I thought that it meant to confuse by subterfuge, as when someone was confused and didn't quite get what was going on, because it flew over their heads, like an errant "missle."
It wasn't until I was in college that someone gently told me that the word was "misled." Actually, that is not what happened. What happened was, I spelled the word as "mislead," and was corrected. It suddenly dawned on me what I had done. I was mortified and red-faced, terribly embarrassed. Today I think it is hilarious. I tell my students this story because I want them to feel comfortable with their own "a-HA" moments.