The Misread Thread

Fallen London
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This here is a thread compilation of words you have or had somehow misread or mispronounced in some way, only to realize you were wrong.

I’ll throw in my experience:

Absintheuse —> To this day, I still read it as &quotAbstinence&quot.

Feducci —> Feduchini.

Parabola —> Pearbolas

Optimatum —> Optinum
edited by Tystefy on 8/15/2017

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&quotA visit from Slowcake’s Amanuensis&quot -> [i]&quotA visit from Slowcake’s Aneurysm&quot

[/i]Then I realized that’s just the effect he has on me.

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Tystefy–>tasty

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I fail to see why this thread is here in the Salons rather than the off topic section. (Especially when half the examples are forum usernames.)

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Allow me to introduce my good acquaintances, Repressed Forger and Sarcastic Music-Hall Singer.

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For a long time, I thought Sinning Jenny was actually Singing Jenny.
I was so innocent back then.

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[quote=Johnny Felix]For a long time, I thought Sinning Jenny was actually Singing Jenny.
I was so innocent back then.[/quote]
me too oh my god. I only realised it’s &quotsinning&quot after I saw it in big letters on her mayoral poster

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Tystefy = Tasty Fly.

Favors in High Places = Favors in The High Palace
edited by Tystefy on 8/15/2017

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I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Cherry Man, fearsome crime lord, pub owner and apparently purveyor of cherries. They must sell quite well down here.

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Uncanny Incunabulum, 'nuff said.

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Freakin Hesperidean Cider

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I just read this very thread’s topic as The Mairead Thread…

also, Cider and Cinder. Don’t know how often I’ve mixed those up in the beginning.

“Waiter, another ray-drenched cider, please!”

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I thought Spirifers were called Sprifters until shortly after the Hell conversion.

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I thought they were spirifiers!

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I read rostygold as rosygold for a long time.

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Shining Jenny and spiritfires.

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Oh! Oh! This reminds me, for a very long time I thought it was &quotnevercold brass silvers&quot and not &quotslivers&quot. Confuse me to no end, wondered if it was some alloy of brass and silver
edited by Pumpkinhead on 8/15/2017
edited by Pumpkinhead on 8/15/2017

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I thought it was Nevercold Brass Silver too at first. And my friend keeps calling Rostygold “Rustygold.”

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Gonna ressurrect this for a moment to say:

For as long as I can remember, I’ve said and spelt it &quotCorpescage&quot island, like Cor-pes-cuhge. Only looking it up on the Wiki just recently did I discover it was &quotCorpsecage&quot island, corpse-cage.

I also always used to read the Topsy King’s word for the Flit as &quotWalksies&quot and not &quotWalkskies&quot.

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The Surface seems like the wrong subforum for this thread.