# Any words you insist on reading wrong (in your head at least)?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 19, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805 "2022-02-19T22:32:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/81 "2022-02-24T22:02:35Z")
Fun Fact: Southwest Airlines used to own the domain name [southworst.com](http://southworst.com), I assume to make sure no one could use it for an anti-Southwest website. Apparently they don’t anymore; now it takes you to one of those placeholder websites. It used to redirect to [southwest.com](http://southwest.com). But anyway, your post made me wonder if Home Depot did something similar.
In my head I like to call Star Trek: Discovery “Disco Ovary”, for no reason other than it sounds funny.
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### Author:  [@Honoria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honoria)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/82 "2022-02-24T22:35:35Z")
Added to the family lexicon by one of my now-grown children when he was a wee little nipper first learning measurements for recipes:
tisp (tsp.) and tibble (tbl.)
We’ve since infected extended family, too, which explains why a number of well-educated adults can be overheard saying things like:
“Since you’re closer to the drawer with the measuring spoons, splash a couple tisps of vanilla extract into that cinnamon roll batter, please, and then I’ll need three tibbles of milk for the icing.”
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/83 "2022-02-24T22:50:09Z")
> [@peedin](#):
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> I’m told it’s inde-fat-a-gable
Between our quests we sequin vests
And impersonate Clark Gable
It’s a busy life in Camelot
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/84 "2022-02-24T23:08:58Z")
I have to push the pram a lot.
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### Author:  [@Hakushon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakushon)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/85 "2022-02-25T06:34:29Z")
right = RIG-hit
comfortable = come for table (as when furniture is repossessed)
vegetable = vuh-JET-ible (which makes me sing, a la Nat King Cole, “un-vuh-jet-ible/that’s what you are…”)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/86 "2022-02-25T15:26:49Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> In my head I like to call Star Trek: Discovery “Disco Ovary”, for no reason other than it sounds funny.
The title of Daft Punk’s album “Discovery” is supposed to be word play meaning “Disco very”.
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### Author:  [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/87 "2022-02-25T17:44:18Z")
I like to pronounce “corps” as “corpse” in my head. So NPR’s Friday morning story segment becomes “Story Corpse”.
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### Author:  [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/88 "2022-02-27T16:54:35Z")
I like to wish Jewish friends a Chappy Channukah because I have chutzpah
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### Author:  [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/89 "2022-02-27T19:30:14Z")
I would read something like “_Don’t be misled…_” and in my mind I was saying “Don’t be miss-uld” ( like being on the receiving end of an ICBM )
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### Author:  [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/90 "2022-03-05T13:03:50Z")
I am still not used to the term “biopic” as a shortening of “bio pic” or biographical picture. I want to say “bi-OPP-ic” or even “bi-OP-tic” as if it’s some type of bifocal vision.
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### Author:  [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/91 "2022-03-05T18:24:06Z")
I pronounce the word ‘Debut’ correctly in spoken conversation, but I pronounce it “dee-BUTT” in my head, or in the past tense, “dee-BUTTED”.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/92 "2022-10-13T01:49:08Z")
I thought of one. Sundried. I always read it as the past participle of the fictional verb “To sundry”, and I wonder what they did to sundried tomatoes to turn them into a sundry.
Wiktionary claims that “sundried” is a variant spelling of “sun-dried” but I do not recall seeing the variant with a hyphen in it. It is one instance where it would be helpful for the hyphen to remain.
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### Author:  [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/93 "2022-10-13T02:23:00Z")
I _only_ remember the spelling with the hyphen, and Google Ngram suggests that the hyphenated spelling is the dominant one in both British English and American English.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/94 "2022-10-13T02:37:25Z")
Several words like “subtle”. At some point while developing my vocabulary I did not realize “subtle” was the word pronounced as if it was spelled “suttle”. To this day the “B” is pronounced in my head.
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### Author:  [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/95 "2022-10-13T08:45:33Z")
Biopic rhymes with myopic in my head. I think a hyphen would help me with pronunciation.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/96 "2022-10-13T08:57:38Z")
I’m completely aware that “draught” is simply the British spelling of “draft” and is pronounced accordingly, but it takes a substantial effort on my part to not read or pronounce it “drawt”, as if it rhymed with “fraught” or “caught”.
Perhaps I should split the difference and start saying that the journey ahead of me is fraft with peril and I hope I don’t get caft with my pants down.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/97 "2022-10-13T12:25:43Z")
Hotels, subdivisions, shop names that are spelled in a quirky manner get quirky pronunciations. One example off the top of my head, TownePlace Suites by Marriott. Well, obviously that first word is “towny-place”.
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### Author:  [@WellHelloThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WellHelloThere)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/98 "2022-10-13T23:08:13Z")
Biopic. I know it is a combination of biographic and picture, but I always read it like it rhymes with myopic, or tropic.
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### Author:  [@WellHelloThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WellHelloThere)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/99 "2022-10-13T23:09:17Z")
Aw. You beat me to it.
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/100 "2022-10-14T01:47:38Z")
Whenever I see **hotel suite** I want to pronounce it “hotel suit.” I have to force myself to pronounce it “hotel sweet.”
I learned just a week ago that I have been pronouncing **trigonometry** wrong my whole life. I’ve been pronouncing it “trigometry,” with only four syllables. 🥴
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