Mispronunciation
We've been discussing comical mispronunciations.My contribution was a family member, who in the 1960s when doing a EFL teacher training course, said to one of the instructors "It's on boo-un-dowry lane', to which he replied, "I think you'll find its Boundary lane, my dear"
A friend contributed the surely apocryphal story of an Australian friend of his who had arrived in London and was staying with someone else. He called friend up and said, "I'm at Looger-Boorooga Junction".
Someone in the office owned up to believing that "misled" and "misled", but pronounced "my-zuld", were different words.
Labels: Words
posted by Matthew @ 6/14/2007 04:12:00 PM
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